From: Eric S. Raymond <esr@thyrsus.com>
Date: Sun, 11 Nov 2012 14:47:22 GMT
Subject: Re: Help requested - trying to build a tool doing whole-tree commits
Message-ID: <20121111144722.GA3593@thyrsus.com>
In-Reply-To: <7vlie9pf96.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>:
> Perhaps not exactly what you are looking for, but don't we have
> import-tar somewhere in contrib/fast-import hierarchy (sorry, not on
> a machine yet, and I cannot give more details).

If I recall correctly, that can only be used for original import.

I think Andreas Schwab's suggestion (git add -A && git write-tree &&
git commit-tree && git update-ref) is probably the right thing. I'm
going to try that.
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