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?

Peter

> 
> Preserving commit dates... I think it could only be possible in
> metadata-ful git repositories, which I would not recommend.
> 
> On Tue, Aug 2, 2016 at 12:10 PM, Holger Freyther <hol...@freyther.de> wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> >
> > I think I have seen something but can't find it right now. I would like to
> > move to git but preserve the history (and my commit messages and the commit
> > date/time). Is there a script that goes through all versions of a package
> > and copies them to git repository? Will it be able to preserve the original
> > commit date?
> >
> > thank you
> >         holger
> >

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