Re: [Boost-users] Updating my local boost.

Subject: Re: [Boost-users] Updating my local boost.
From: Steven Watanabe (watanabesj_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-09-19 11:38:25

AMDG

Robert Jones wrote:
> Then what do I do? I basically want to overwrite our existing boost code with
> the newer code, but maintain our local edit history so we can see what's changed
> locally between our old boost code and new. Hence there are lots of additions,
> changes and deletions, all of which I want to be able see (that's see
> the differences
> between our old code and new code, not all the individual boost commits). How
> can I do this?
>   

I don't know whether this is the best way to achieve this but you can
import the new version of boost into a separate branch and then merge with
--ignore-ancestry

In Christ,
Steven Watanabe