Add earlier history retroactively?

[Nikolaus Rath]

Pierre-Yves David <pierre-yves.david at logilab.fr> writes:
> On Thu, Apr 08, 2010 at 06:26:06PM +0300, Predrag Minic wrote:
>> You can convert a subversion repository, then pull (with -f) that one  
>> into your existing repository, and then rebase the existing changes  
>> (with --config ui.merge=internal:other) on top of the pulled svn repo.
>
> But it will alter the whole history of your repo (rebased changeset will be
> "new changeset"). I would use convert, pull -f followed by a dummy merge.

What do you mean by a "dummy merge"? Just reverting all the incoming
changes? 

Am I right that in this case I would end up with a repository that has
two independent "tails" and one head? Is that not going to cause
problems?


Best,

   -Nikolaus

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