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| author |  tyger <tyger@web> | 2011-02-23 09:49:34 +0000 |
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| committer |  admin <admin@branchable.com> | 2011-02-23 09:49:34 +0000 |
| commit | 5b96961957678765480a4e540f3f82e28d921d5d (patch) | |
| tree | 69695dc44016da98303742acebc4df1ed396971f | |
| parent | 4c761b0b08f904e3bce78e979bb855f4c78507aa (diff) | |
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diff --git a/doc/forum/migrate_existing_git_repository_to_git-annex.mdwn b/doc/forum/migrate_existing_git_repository_to_git-annex.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 000000000..fe26f6952 --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/forum/migrate_existing_git_repository_to_git-annex.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +I have a large git repository with binary files scattered over different branches. I want to switch to git-annex mainly for performance reasons, but I don't want to loose my history. + +I tried to rewrite the (cloned) repository with git-filter-branch but failed miserably for several reasons: + * --tree-filter performs its operations in a temporary directory (.git-rewrite/t/) so the symlinks point to the wrong destination (../../.git/annex/). + * annex log files are stored in .git-annex/ instead of .git-rewrite/t/.git-annex/ so the filter operation misses them + +Any suggestions how to proceed? |