Stitching several git repositories into a git fast-import stream

git-stitch-repo

Stitch several git repositories (merging git repository) into a git fast-import stream from Git-FastExport

Installation

$ perl -MCPAN -e shell    cpan[6]> i /fastexport/ 	Distribution    BOOK/Git-FastExport-0.107.tar.gz 	Module  < Git::FastExport        (BOOK/Git-FastExport-0.107.tar.gz) 	Module  < Git::FastExport::Block (BOOK/Git-FastExport-0.107.tar.gz) 	Module  < Git::FastExport::Stitch (BOOK/Git-FastExport-0.107.tar.gz) 	4 items found  cpan[6]> install BOOK/Git-FastExport-0.107.tar.gz  cpan[6]> CTRL-D

Usage

git-stitch-repo will process the output of git fast-export –all –date-order on the git repositories given on the command-line, and create a stream suitable for git fast-import that will create a new repository containing all the commits in a new commit tree that respects the history of all the source repositories. Typical usage is like this:

 git clone https://github.com/xxxx/A.git git clone https://github.com/xxxxx/B.git  $ ls A B  mkdir result cd result git init git-stitch-repo ../A:folderA ../B:folderB | git fast-import  # pull both repository in a new branch for examples git checkout -b newBranch git pull . master-A git pull . master-B  # when finished delete unused branches git branch -d master-A  git branch -d master-B