NAME
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-git-archimport - Import an Arch repository into GIT
+git-archimport - Import an Arch repository into git
SYNOPSIS
MERGES
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-Patch merge data from Arch is used to mark merges in GIT as well. GIT
+Patch merge data from Arch is used to mark merges in git as well. git
does not care much about tracking patches, and only considers a merge when a
branch incorporates all the commits since the point they forked. The end result
-is that GIT will have a good idea of how far branches have diverged. So the
+is that git will have a good idea of how far branches have diverged. So the
import process does lose some patch-trading metadata.
Fortunately, when you try and merge branches imported from Arch,
-GIT will find a good merge base, and it has a good chance of identifying
+git will find a good merge base, and it has a good chance of identifying
patches that have been traded out-of-sequence between the branches.
OPTIONS