From: Alan Chandler Date: Thu, 03 Nov 2005 22:02:18 GMT Subject: Re: little conundrum Message-ID: <200511032202.18900.alan@chandlerfamily.org.uk> In-Reply-To: On Thursday 03 Nov 2005 17:47, Johannes Schindelin wrote: > 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? -- Alan Chandler http://www.chandlerfamily.org.uk Open Source. It's the difference between trust and antitrust.