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DISCUSSION joel reed 2 participants 2 messages Jun 15, 2016

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I've been maintaining a project in git for a while and making use of http://repo.or.cz/w/tfs.git as a public repository. Since I also needed a project site, I set something up at Google Code, which of course, forces you to use subversion.

I added the files to subversion, checked them in, then a few weeks later decided I should learn how to use git-svn. So now I have two trees, one pure git using repo.or.cz, and the other made by git-svn against Google' subversion.

Is there anyway to merge these two repositories into one? I don't want to lose the http://repo.or.cz/w/tfs.git history, but I don't care about the Google subversion history.

I tried moving the .git/svn folder from the git-svn managed repository into the repo.or.cz .git folder, but as I expected, that didn't work. Life's never that easy! Anyway, if anyone knows how to merge these two repos, I would love to hear about it.

jr

PS. Maybe, a more generalized use case here is
a) maintain a git tree for a while
b) decide you have to stick code in subversion for others sometime
later, but you still want to use git and keep your git history

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Hi,

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So now I have two trees, one pure git using repo.or.cz, and the other made by git-svn against Google' subversion.

I'd merge them by fetching the pure-git one into the git-svn'ed. Or vice versa. Then, you can say "git merge <other-branch>". If the revisions are similiar (or identical), it will succeed even if they do not have any common ancestor.

Ciao,
Dscho