Re: Considering teaching plumbing to users harmful

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Jul 17, 2008, 19:10 UTC
Message-ID: <7vmykgfhtj.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0807171940160.8986@racer>

Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes:

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> On Thu, 17 Jul 2008, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>
>> Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes:
>> 
>> >> Is there a way to commit the contents of a tarball without using 
>> >> plumbing?  I occasionally want to track an upstream that I know only 
>> >> as a series of tarballs, so I do something like:
>> >> 
>> >> 	cd repo/
>> >> 	git checkout upstream
>> >> 	rm -rf *
>> >> 	tar -xzvf ../new-version.tar.gz
>> >
>> > How about "git add -u" and "git add ."?
>> 
>> It would work only if new version never removes files.
>
> You made me doubt for a second there.  But "git add -u" updates the index 
> when a tracked files was deleted.  So after "rm -rf *", "git add -u" would 
> empty the index.

I thought everybody would react to my message like so after sending it ;-) What I failed to say was that the main uneasiness about the above command sequence Bruce or anybody would have felt would be that "rm -fr *" step, which in itself look scary and does not remove .frotz that came from older version.