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[https://gitlab.com/esr/reposurgeon Reposurgeon] is a tool by Eric Raymond that is for editing version-control repositories.  It can be used to migrate from one system to another; like [[Git/migrating_to_git|migrating from Subversion to Git]].  A lot of large software projects <ref>e.g. [http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Dev:Ref/Proposals/MigrationToGit Blender], [https://wiki.mozilla.org/ReleaseEngineering/How_To/VCSSync Mozilla], [http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=4071 Network UPS Tools] </ref>have migrated from Subversion to Git, and reposurgeon is one of the few tools that can actually accomplish large migrations.
 
[https://gitlab.com/esr/reposurgeon Reposurgeon] is a tool by Eric Raymond that is for editing version-control repositories.  It can be used to migrate from one system to another; like [[Git/migrating_to_git|migrating from Subversion to Git]].  A lot of large software projects <ref>e.g. [http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Dev:Ref/Proposals/MigrationToGit Blender], [https://wiki.mozilla.org/ReleaseEngineering/How_To/VCSSync Mozilla], [http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=4071 Network UPS Tools] </ref>have migrated from Subversion to Git, and reposurgeon is one of the few tools that can actually accomplish large migrations.
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[https://git.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/InterfacesFrontendsAndTools#Interaction_with_other_Revision_Control_Systems There are many other tools] for importing and even bi-directional interfaces between repositories.  However, reposurgeon is probably the best tool for doing large complex migrations.
  
 
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See below for a description of the <code>git filter-branch</code> command  
 
See below for a description of the <code>git filter-branch</code> command  
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== Examples ==
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* http://blog.runtux.com/2014/04/18/233/
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* https://github.com/cmusatyalab/coda-git-conversion/blob/master/lwp.lift
  
 
== Re-writing history ==
 
== Re-writing history ==

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