[Gnash-dev] Importing repos (was: Gnash 0.8.9 - time for next RC)

[olafBuddenhagen]

Hi,

On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 06:27:05PM +0100, Sandro Santilli wrote:

> You can't take slices of trees with git, so no way w/out getting the
> whole swfdec.

Actually, it's very easy if you don't care about the original commit
IDs.

If you want to preserve the IDs, you indeed need to include the whole
repo in the history. Doesn't mean though you have to keep all the
irrelevant files in the merged branch. They are just bloating the
repository somewhat...

-antrik-