On Tue, Aug 2, 2016 at 9:07 PM, Thierry Goubier <thierry.goub...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Le 02/08/2016 à 13:23, Peter Uhnak a écrit : > >> On Tue, Aug 02, 2016 at 01:04:10PM +0200, Nicolas Passerini wrote: >> >>> There is this script from Peter Uhnak >>> >>> https://www.peteruhnak.com/blog/2016/03/02/moving-project-from-smalltalkhub-to-github/#Copying-repository >>> >>> but it will not be able to preserve commit date. >>> >> >> At the time of the (post) writing it did preserve commit dates, but there >> was no metadata-less yet. >> >> In any case, I don't see a reason why it shouldn't preserve commit dates >> with metadata-less — it goes mcz by mcz and recommits it with given date, >> no? >> > > No it doesn't set the commit date. I'm not even sure git would allow you > to set commit dates in the past, but I may be wrong (this is probably what > git-cvs does). > git doesn't prohibit modification of history in any way, so you can do whatever you want. In fact this is how gitfiletree DID behave when I was moving last year, but I don't know whether this particular change was removed, or never integrated (i.e. just my local change). I did make mention of date when I was moving to Git http://forum.world.st/moving-to-git-and-preserving-monticello-history-td4806386.html#a4806611 Peter
