{"thread":{"id":"32088","subject":"Re: Help requested - trying to build a tool doing whole-tree commits","startedAt":"2012-11-12T13:11:22Z","lastAt":"2012-11-12T13:11:22Z","messageCount":1,"participants":["ydirson@free.fr"],"isPatch":false,"patchVersion":null,"patchTotal":null},"messages":[{"id":"202952","messageId":"1251602526.74686986.1352725882260.JavaMail.root@zimbra39-e7.priv.proxad.net","threadId":"32088","inReplyTo":"931951238.74665890.1352725212354.JavaMail.root@zimbra39-e7.priv.proxad.net","subject":"Re: Help requested - trying to build a tool doing whole-tree commits","fromName":"","fromEmail":"ydirson@free.fr","sentAt":"2012-11-12T13:11:22Z","receivedAt":"2012-11-12T13:11:22Z","isPatch":false,"sender":{"key":"ydirson@free.fr","avatar":null},"body":"esr:\n>Junio C Hamano <gitster <at> pobox.com>:\n>> Perhaps not exactly what you are looking for, but don't we have\n>> import-tar somewhere in contrib/fast-import hierarchy (sorry, not on\n>> a machine yet, and I cannot give more details).\n>\n>If I recall correctly, that can only be used for original import.\n\nYou may find my (old) ag-import-patch tool useful.  Although the name does not\nimply it, it allows to import a series of releases that can be available either as\ntarballs or as patches.\n\nhttp://ydirson.free.fr/soft/git/argit.git/\n\nThere's not much doc in there, and not so much I can remember myself from the short\nhelp string.  IIRC you can specify which base revision a patch applies to (ie. it\nmay apply to an older revision, not necessarily to the current HEAD).\n\nIt has also quite some bitrot (git-* direct invocation, use of cg-tag, surely more).\n"}]}