[Borgbackup] borg-import - use to merge backups?

[Oon-Ee Ng]

I've been using borg for just over a month now to test it out, and I think
I'm going to delete my old rsnapshot archives (which go back 2 years).

Ideally I'd like to convert them to borg archives instead of just deleting
them, so I just found borg-import[1] which looks like it'll do what I need.

However it seems to be geared towards working on an empty repo. How would
it fare if used on my existing borg repo (which I've been using for the
past month)? In particular, how would the dating of the archives work (is
there a way to 'set' the date of an archive to not be the date the archive
was generated?)?

Also, I'm going to do some surgery on the rsnapshot archives first. I've
always hated how the paths were from root, so the snapshot directory would
have something like
month.3/mnt/HDD/path/to/actual/folder/through/the/entire/tree, and there's
some directories I no longer care about that I'll just delete. Would such
modifications make a big difference to borg-import?

Should I, instead of using borg-import, be looking at manually creating
archives?

[1] - https://github.com/borgbackup/borg-import
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