From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Thu, 03 Nov 2005 17:47:56 GMT
Subject: Re: little conundrum
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0511031845410.3435@wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>
In-Reply-To: <200511031741.20496.alan@chandlerfamily.org.uk>

Hi,

On Thu, 3 Nov 2005, Alan Chandler wrote:

> I would like to make myself a git repository that contains at the start, 
> an initial commit of the original downloaded source code, and a second 
> commit on the top of that that contains the the current state of play 
> after the changes I have made.

How about this:

	cd orig/
	git-init-db
	git-add $(find * -type f)
	git-commit -m "initial"
	cd ../modified
	mv ../orig/.git ./
	git-add $(find * -type f)
	git-commit -a -m "my modifications"

Of course -- in the great tradition of this list -- totally untested.

Hth,
Dscho