Re: Considering teaching plumbing to users harmful

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Jul 17, 2008, 18:29 UTC
Message-ID: <7vtzeofjpi.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0807171915420.8986@racer>

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

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>> 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.

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