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Re: Help requested - trying to build a tool doing whole-tree commits

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Nov 12, 2012, 13:11 UTC
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>Junio C Hamano <gitster <at> pobox.com>:
>> Perhaps not exactly what you are looking for, but don't we have
>> import-tar somewhere in contrib/fast-import hierarchy (sorry, not on
>> a machine yet, and I cannot give more details).
>
>If I recall correctly, that can only be used for original import.

You may find my (old) ag-import-patch tool useful. Although the name does not imply it, it allows to import a series of releases that can be available either as tarballs or as patches.

http://ydirson.free.fr/soft/git/argit.git/

There's not much doc in there, and not so much I can remember myself from the short help string. IIRC you can specify which base revision a patch applies to (ie. it may apply to an older revision, not necessarily to the current HEAD).

It has also quite some bitrot (git-* direct invocation, use of cg-tag, surely more).
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  1. ydirson@free.frNov 12, 2012

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