From: Shawn O. Pearce Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2007 23:04:06 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH] Teach 'git apply' to look at $GIT_DIR/config Message-ID: <20070219230406.GC27722@spearce.org> In-Reply-To: Linus Torvalds 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.