Re: [PATCH] Teach 'git apply' to look at $GIT_DIR/config

From: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Date: Feb 19, 2007, 23:04 UTC
Message-ID: <20070219230406.GC27722@spearce.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0702191450580.20368@woody.linux-foundation.org>

Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote:

> (*) Although I have also noticed that even more often than using "git 
> apply" outside a git thing, I just import everything into git these days. 
> So I may not have actually used git-apply outside of a git project in a 
> long time any more. But I did, a few times.

Which makes me wonder, have you looked at (or used) contrib/fast-import/import-tars.perl ?

Its Perl, which I know is not your favorite language, but it should be a faster way to get a tar into a Git repository, as we never actually extract the files from the tar, or create loose objects.

-- 
Shawn.

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