Re: [PATCH] User Manual: document import-tars.perl

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Sep 26, 2007, 19:58 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0709262055210.28395@racer.site>
In-Reply-To: <20070926181451.GA20976@fieldses.org>

Hi,

On Wed, 26 Sep 2007, J. Bruce Fields wrote:

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> On Wed, Sep 26, 2007 at 12:37:04AM +0200, Miklos Vajna wrote:
> > Signed-off-by: Miklos Vajna <vmiklos@frugalware.org>
> > ---
> > 
> > On Tue, Sep 25, 2007 at 04:13:06PM -0400, "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org> wrote:
> > > One exception--the "series of tarballs" thing--I think it's cool that
> > > you can just unpack a bunch of tarballs and string them together into a
> > > git history.  It gives a good sense of how git works, and I don't think
> > > it's documented explicitly anywhere.  I think that might be kinda fun to
> > > write up.  But I haven't tried.
> > 
> > something like this?
> 
> Neat-o, I'd missed (or forgotten about) import-tars.perl.

You should also mention

$ mkdir my-new-repo
$ cd my-new-repo
$ git init
$ for z in /blub/*.zip
  do
	rm -rf * 2> /dev/null &&
	unzip "$z" &&
	git add . &&
	git commit -m "$z" ||
	break
  done

import-tars.pl is much faster than this, of course, when it comes to tars, but it has no clue about other archive formats.

Ciao, Dscho