Re: little conundrum

From: Alan Chandler <alan@chandlerfamily.org.uk>
Date: Nov 3, 2005, 22:02 UTC
Message-ID: <200511032202.18900.alan@chandlerfamily.org.uk>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0511031845410.3435@wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>

On Thursday 03 Nov 2005 17:47, Johannes Schindelin wrote:

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> Hi,
>
> On Thu, 3 Nov 2005, Alan Chandler wrote:
> > 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.
>
> How about this:
>
> 	cd orig/
> 	git-init-db
> 	git-add $(find * -type f)
> 	git-commit -m "initial"
> 	cd ../modified
> 	mv ../orig/.git ./
> 	git-add $(find * -type f)
> 	git-commit -a -m "my modifications"
>
> Of course -- in the great tradition of this list -- totally untested.

Also untested, but what about removing the files from the index that aren't in the working directory?

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Alan Chandler
http://www.chandlerfamily.org.uk
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