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From: Hartmut Goebel <h.goebel@goebel-consult•de>
To: git@vger•kernel.org
Subject: migrating from svn: How to clean up history?
Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2011 15:53:09 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4EE766D5.5040702@goebel-consult.de> (raw)

Hello,

I'm one of the developers of www.pyinstaller.org, a tool for 
bundling/packagin Python scripts and al required modules into a single 
executable for easy distribution. We are in the process of migrating 
from Subversion to git.

Our SVN-Repo contains some stuff we do not want or do not need in the 
git repo. How can we clean this up?

1) Useless commits e.g. tagging -> I want to remove these
2) copy or move mistakes -> I want to "correct" the copy

Example for 1): This occurs e.g. if this is done

svn cp trunk tags/v0.1 -m 'release v0.1' <<<--- this on in not needed
svn rm tags/v0.1 -m 'release v0.1'
svn cp trunk tags/v0.1 -m 'release v0.1'

In this case I want to completely eliminate the first commit.

Example for 2): This occurs e.g. if this is done

svn cp trunk tags/v0.1 -m 'release v0.1'
svn cp trunk tags/v0.1 -m 'release v0.1' <<-- actually copies to 
tags/v0.1/trunk

In this case I want to change eliminate the first commit (this is he 
same as case 1) and rewrite commit 2 to rewrite the path.

I already did some experiments with `git filter-branch` without success. 
(I manage renaming the tags, though.)

Any hints how to to this clean-up?

-- 
Schönen Gruß - Regards
Hartmut Goebel
Dipl.-Informatiker (univ.), CISSP, CSSLP

Goebel Consult
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             reply	other threads:[~2011-12-13 14:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-12-13 14:53 Hartmut Goebel [this message]
2011-12-13 15:12 ` migrating from svn: How to clean up history? Jakub Narebski
2011-12-16 23:11 ` Thomas Ferris Nicolaisen

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