From: Simon Richter <simon.richter@hogyros.de>
Date: Wed, 28 Dec 2005 15:51:16 GMT
Subject: Re: git-inject-tarball
Message-ID: <43B2B474.1000603@hogyros.de>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0512281230070.15184@wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>

Hi,

Johannes Schindelin wrote:

> Something like this?

> -- snip --
> #!/bin/sh
> 
> TARFILE="$1"
> test -z "$TARFILE" && TARFILE=-
> 
> git-ls-files -z | xargs -0 rm
> tar xvf "$TARFILE" | xargs git add
> git-update-index --remove $(git-ls-files)
> -- snap --

Well, the most important thing for such a tool IMO would be that it 
wouldn't overwrite any uncommitted changes, so it's not as trivial as it 
seems.

    Simon