Re: move files between disparate repos and maintain version history

On Tue, Mar 03, 2009 at 11:58:42AM -0500, David Copeland wrote:

The first option worked, insomuch the history of diffs is preserved,
but the dates are all today.

That's odd. It works fine here. Can you confirm that the correct dates
in the "patches" file (i.e., the output of format-patch)? What are you
using to look at the patches? Note that gitk will show you both the
"committer" and the "author" fields. The "author" field should have the
original author and time of the patch, but the "committer" will be you,
today.

The second option was a little over my head; is the idea there that
you are setting up a branch that has ONLY the files I care about (with
all their history), and then I pull from the other repo as if they are
related?  That seems like it might preserve the dates...

Yes, that is exactly what is happening in the second example.

-Peff