I have 2 projects that once shared git histories I would like to merge together.
One is "Active" which was just a push of our old existing Git repository and not a formal import. People have been working on this repository for several months now and have processed about 900+ merge requests. Unfortunately this "new" repo is missing past merge requests that happened in the old repo host.
I now have a full proper import "historical" of our old repository from bitbucket. This one has the git history up until we switched to a self-hosted gitlab and has 10k+ merge requests that happened over a few years.
Is it possible with just using the gitlab interface to merge these two repositories or at least their merge request lists together?
The key part for me is just getting the merge requests uh, merged together so there is just 1 repo with 11k+ merge requests and all their comments / summaries in it. The branches, tags and other data is largely irrelevant to me.
My backup plan is to just dump the historical somewhere and just tell people to go search that one if they need to look something older up.