Comments on: How I initialize my Git repositories

By: Pushing Git to Subversion: the case of WordPress plugin repository | Kevin Deldycke

Tue, 30 Aug 2011 09:12:22 +0000

[...] with a copy of the original tree, and is the result of the rebase.But the latter has a problem: my initial commit and all my tags are squashed. I tried several methods to rebase my whole Git tree onto the local [...]

By: FTT Migration from Subversion to Git | Kevin Deldycke

FTT Migration from Subversion to Git | Kevin Deldycke — Tue, 30 Aug 2011 09:11:29 +0000

[...] svnserve –daemon –listen-port 3690 –root ./ftt-svn Then I created a local Git repository, using my initialization routine: $ rm -rf ./ftt-git $ mkdir ./ftt-git $ cd ./ftt-git $ git init $ git commit –allow-empty -m [...]

By: kev

kev — Tue, 12 Apr 2011 12:28:25 +0000

If you need to automate the setting of the initial commit’s date, then add the init tag just after the git commit command.

This will let you get the hash of the first commit dynamically:

$ git commit --allow-empty -m 'Initial commit'
$ git tag "init"
$ export GIT_TMP_INIT_HASH=`git show-ref init | cut -d ' ' -f 1`
$ git filter-branch --env-filter '
    if [ $GIT_COMMIT = $GIT_TMP_INIT_HASH ]
      then
        export GIT_AUTHOR_DATE="Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000"
        export GIT_COMMITTER_DATE="Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000"
    fi' -- --all
$ unset GIT_TMP_INIT_HASH

By: Moving a Git sub-tree to its own repository | Kevin Deldycke

Moving a Git sub-tree to its own repository | Kevin Deldycke — Thu, 24 Mar 2011 15:50:19 +0000

[...] at the bottom of the history, I still have my initial commit (a personal habit of mine when I initialize my Git repositories). But its date was updated by the first filter-branch call. Let’s set its date back to [...]

By: kev

kev — Tue, 18 Jan 2011 16:29:31 +0000

I'm starting to get an idea of the initial commit problem. And according Brandon Dimcheff, it looks like a --root option was added to Git to address this issue.And here is an example I found on Stack Overflow on how to use it: [code lang="shell"] git rebase --root --onto $emptyrootcommit [/code]

By: Commit history reconstruction with Git | Kev's blog

Commit history reconstruction with Git | Kev's blog — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 19:08:46 +0000

[...] Let’s create a history-injection branch from the init tag. The later is the root of my repository, as explained in my previous post on how I initialize my Git repositories. [...]