Re: Advice on converting to git from versioning-by-directory

On Thu, Nov 23, 2006 at 09:16:44AM +0000, Andy Parkins wrote:

What should I do?  I've thought of a number of things:
 * Recreate the whole lot by hand, the repository isn't huge and I could 
manually apply each commit as a patch in the correct place.  It would be a 
bit time-consuming but would mean I'd have what I wanted

If I understand you correctly, you want to take four branches, each with
data in version1/, version2/, etc, and make it look like they all had
data in the project root throughout history. Is that right?

If so, cogito's cg-admin-rewritehist can probably do what you want (I
also posted a script a while back to do this exact thing, and I can dig
it up if you want).