From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2008 18:29:13 GMT
Subject: Re: Considering teaching plumbing to users harmful
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:

>> 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.