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Re: Help requested - trying to build a tool doing whole-tree commits

From
Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Nov 10, 2012, 16:57 UTC
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Unknown <unknown@unknown.invalid> writes:
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> (Apologies if this arrives twice. I'm on the road, with somewhat flaky email.)
>
> Because of my work on reposurgeon, I am sometimes asked to produce git
> repositories for very old projects that not only are still using CVS
> but have ancient releases not in the CVS repository, preserved only
> as tarballs.

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).

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