From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Sat, 10 Nov 2012 16:57:41 GMT
Subject: Re: Help requested - trying to build a tool doing whole-tree commits
Message-ID: <7vlie9pf96.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <20121109182024.81074BC66D4@golux>

Unknown <unknown@unknown.invalid> writes:

> (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).