I don't have much time now, but something like this should work Make a new repo: cd foo-new git init
Make the old stuff available: git remote add old ../foo git fetch old Import the first upstream source: tar xf ../tarballs/foo_0.1.origtar.gz --strip 1 git add . git commit -a -m 'Import upstream snapshot 0.1' git tag upstream/0.1 Import second and following sources: for i in $(ls -A); do if [ "$i" != ".git" ]; then rm -rf $i; fi done tar xf ../tarballs/foo_0.2.origtar.gz --strip 1 git add . git commit -a -m 'Import upstream snapshot 0.2' git tag upstream/0.2 Rename the branch: git branch -m upstream Create master branch: git checkout -b master upstream/0.1 Show all tags: git tag Then merge the debian dir from the old tags: git merge old-release-tag-0.1 And tag this with a new tag: git tag debian/0.1-1 (If there are additional debian version before next upstream, to the same for them) Now update to the next upstream release: git merge upstream/0.2 And then continue merging from the old tags. This should produce a plausible history. If you have the repo public somewhere i could give it a try. Jan
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