Re: How to deal with historic tar-balls

From: Philip Oakley <philipoakley@iee.org>
Date: Jan 2, 2012, 09:25 UTC
Message-ID: <4C50794C7EED42A0B1A25ABD77CE7DB0@PhilipOakley>
In-Reply-To: <B375E525C4704EA8807B5A59257B690B@PhilipOakley>

From: "Philip Oakley" <philipoakley@iee.org>: Sunday, January 01, 2012 6:30 
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> From: "Tomas Carnecky" <tom@dbservice.com> : Sunday, January 01, 2012 
> 12:27 AM
>>On 12/31/11 8:04 PM, nn6eumtr wrote:
>>> I have a number of older projects that I want to bring into a git
>>> repository. They predate a lot of the popular scm systems, so they are
>>> primarily a collection of tarballs today.
>> There is a script which will import sources from multiple tarballs,
>> creating a commit with the contents of each tarball. It's in the git
>> repository under contrib/fast-import/import-tars.perl.
> I wasn't aware of those scripts. I'll be having a look at the zip import
> script for my needs.
>
>> tom
> Philip
>

I had a look at the script but Python isn't part of the Msysgit install, so the example wouldn't run.

Also I couldn't see how the "fast_import.write(" method was being created - my ignorance of Python? Otherwise I could look at scripting it.

Philip