Re: Switching from old git tree

[Sven Axelsson <sven.axelsson@gmail.com>]

On 14 November 2014 13:20, David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org> wrote:
> peder@news.klingenberg.no (Peder O. Klingenberg) writes:
>
>> I have been using the old git-mirror for a while.  In there, I have a
>> branch with some local modifications.
>>
>> I understand that I need to check out a fresh tree now after the
>> conversion?  What is the smoothest way of integrating my local branch in
>> this new tree?  I'm a very basic git user, and the only way I can think
>> of is to extract the patches from my old branch and applying them by
>> hand in the new tree.
>
> Using git format-patch and git am, rather than git diff and git apply.
>
>> Is there something else I should be doing instead?
>
> I don't think there is much of an option to do something else.

I suppose you could add your old repo as a local remote to the new one, and
cherry-pick your commits, i.e.:

git remote add old /local/path/to/old
# Fetch the data to your new repo
git fetch old
# Find the commits to pick somehow
git log old/master
# Copy to new repo
git cherry-pick <sha-of-commit>

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