From: Miklos Vajna <vmiklos@frugalware.org>
Date: Fri, 20 Jun 2008 11:51:02 GMT
Subject: Re: Importing non-version controlled bits and pieces to Git
Message-ID: <20080620115102.GW29404@genesis.frugalware.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0806201036440.24013@ds9.cixit.se>

On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 10:42:22AM +0100, Peter Karlsson <peter@softwolves.pp.se> wrote:
> I am looking at moving a project that has not been version-controlled
> in the regular sense into Git. I have found it to currently consist of
> 40 directories with copies of the set of files in various shapes.
> 
> I have reconstructed something that looks like a probable revision tree
> for these 40 directories, and I want to put this into Git so that I can
> examine what changes have been made where, and merge the various
> versions back together so that there can be one version with all the
> various fixes.

Maybe contrib/fast-import/import-tars.perl?

It imports tar.{gz,bz2,Z} files, but you can tar up your trees or it can
just serve as an example and you can write your own script that does the
same with directories.