Re: git am from scratch

On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 04:09:24PM +0100, Andreas Gruenbacher wrote:

lates git (e986ceb0): there is a bug in git am when trying to recreate the 
entire history of a repository:

I don't think this has ever worked in any version of git.

It might be nice to have, since it does come up once in a while, so I
suspect patches would be welcome.

But...

When the first commit is added by hand instead, git am will import the
rest of the mbox without problems. This is annoying because it's at
least not immediately obvious how to recreate the initial commit with
all the metadata.

Is this easily fixed?

There are many other ways to do this. Have you tried:

  - simply pulling the old repo into the new one?

  - if they are not connected in real-time, creating a bundle from the
    first and pulling it into the latter?

  - if you want to tweak the commit data during the process, have you
    tried using fast-export/fast-import rather than format-patch/am?

-Peff