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+# attempt to merge eclipse.platform.ui.compat into eclipse.platform.ui
+# grafting the first fork_workbench commit onto its branch point 
+# off of 3.6M3 and then merging it into the 4.2 master.
+
+Some starting repos ... the rest will have to be fixed to reflect this:
+git clone ssh://pwebster@git.eclipse.org/gitroot/platform/eclipse.platform.ui.git graft.ui.workbench
+
+
+
+# First we need to cleanse common branches and tags between ui and compat
+
+cd eclipse.platform.ui
+git tag | sort -u >../tags_ui.txt
+git branch -r | sort -u >../branch_ui.txt
+cd ../eclipse.platform.ui.compat/
+git tag | sort -u >../tags_compat.txt
+git branch -r | sort -u >../branch_compat.txt
+cd ..
+comm -12 tags_ui.txt  tags_compat.txt >compat_tags.txt
+comm -12 branch_ui.txt branch_compat.txt >compat_branches.txt
+
+#Clean up the tags out of the eclipse.platform.ui.compat repo
+#Probably branches as well.
+
+==== got this far ====
+
+cd eclipse.platform.ui
+for f in $( cat ../common_tags.txt ) ; do git tag ${f}_R3 ${f}; git tag -d $f ; git push origin :$f ; done
+
+# pull in the e4 ui stuff and add the merge node.
+#
+
+git remote add compat ssh://pwebster@git.eclipse.org/gitroot/e4/eclipse.platform.ui.compat.git
+git fetch compat master:wb_fork
+
+
+
+# Replicate all of the branches so that you can create a useful repo
+git branch -r >../br.txt
+# remove e4/master and origin/master from the file, then
+for f in $( cat ../br.txt ); do BR=$( echo $f | sed 's/^.*\///g' ); git branch -t $BR $f ; done
+
+# Then since master now points to the last commit in e4, 
+# the push will push everything back to the main repo
+# except we can't push any of our franken-repos, because of the commit hooks
+#git push --all origin
+#git push --tags origin
+
+# so we'll do it the bad way
+
+  cd ..
+  git clone --bare eclipse.platform.ui eclipse.platform.ui.git
+  cd eclipse.platform.ui.git
+  git remote rm origin
+# check that it is shared
+  git config -l
+  git config --add core.sharedrepository 1
+  
+# copy it to git root, from my local machine
+scp -r * pwebster@dev.eclipse.org:/gitroot/platform/eclipse.platform.ui.git
+
+
+  
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