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Re: little conundrum

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PEPeter Eriksen <s022018@student.dtu.dk>
Date
Nov 3, 2005, 18:10 UTC
Message-ID
<20051103181002.GA26437@bohr.gbar.dtu.dk>
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<200511031741.20496.alan@chandlerfamily.org.uk>
On Thu, Nov 03, 2005 at 05:41:20PM +0000, Alan Chandler wrote:
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> I have a little problem I am trying to solve.  Tried a few things and got 
> nowhere, so I thought I would ask here.
> 
> I have two directories one of which contains a tree of source code that was an 
> original software package that I downloaded.  The other contains the result 
> of some unfinished - but quite substancial changes that I had made to that 
> source code.  Since this was some time ago, I don't have any records, but it 
> is quite possible that I added and removed quite a few files.
> 
> I would like to make myself a git repository that contains at the start, an 
> initial commit of the original downloaded source code, and a second commit on 
> the top of that that contains the the current state of play after the changes 
> I have made.

What I read from this, is that you could do something like (with Git, but I suppose Cogito is very similar):

]cd original ]git-init-db ]git-add all-the-files ]git-commit -m "Initial import" ]cp -rf ../modified/* . ]git-status ...fix things up adding and deleting files ]git-commit -m "First big change

The point is, I think git-status will tell you about any modifications you have made by just overwriting the original tree with the modified one.

Peter
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  5. Johannes SchindelinNov 4, 2005
  6. Peter EriksenNov 3, 2005
  7. Alan ChandlerNov 3, 2005
  8. Peter EriksenNov 3, 2005
  9. Alan ChandlerNov 3, 2005
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  11. Petr BaudisNov 3, 2005
  12. Alan ChandlerNov 3, 2005

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