Re: Merging repositories and their histories

I don't quite understand what you are suggesting I do.

I have looked over the filter-branch manpage.

What would I first do? Copy all three repositories to
./Archive/{A,B,C}? Then rewrite their histories?

- Peter

2008/8/18 Alex Riesen [off-list ref]

Peter Waller, Mon, Aug 18, 2008 18:46:14 +0200:

quoted

I have three repositories, A, B and C. I wish to bring them together to only
one repository (.), where they are in a directory called ./Archive, so..
./Archive/{A,B,C}. Then I plan at a later date to move files arbitrarily
from ./Archive/{A/B/C}/Something and into ./Something{A/B/C}. (A lame
example, but illustrates what I want to do).

If this transition is meant to be persistent (IOW, the A, B and C stop
existing as repos on their own) you can rewrite their histories to be
in the directories (with git filter-branch) and just merge them in
one. Then the histories will look like as if they have never grown
separately.