Re: [boost] A few more critical dependencies

On 6 June 2014 00:42, Daniel James wrote:

On 5 June 2014 17:01, Peter Dimov wrote:

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Most of the history of this file is from the SVN and the transition doesn't preserve any merge points, so the two branches appear completely separate, even though the commits turn out to be actually identical in this case.

That's because 'git log' includes the commits from both branches when they're merged.

I think a better way to do this is to create a copy of the repo, use 'git filter-branch' to reduce the history to the files you want, then fetch the appropriate branches into the destination, and merge the branch into your tree. There's an example of using 'git filter-branch' at http://stackoverflow.com/a/6006679/2434.