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Re: Importing non-version controlled bits and pieces to Git

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Peter Karlsson <peter@softwolves.pp.se>
Date
Jun 23, 2008, 14:46 UTC
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Peter Karlsson:
> That might work. My problem is the non-linearity of the data I want
> to import. But I might be able to massage the import-tars output
> before I feed it to git-fast-import to describe the history I need it
> to.

I ended up making a script that converted a description file that described the hierarchy of versions and generated a fast-import file from it. Good to have so that I could move stuff around a bit to make up a version tree that looked somewhat reasonable (a lot of cross-directory copying has been going on here, and no-one knows which version is which).

I will try to make the script available.
-- 
\\// Peter - http://www.softwolves.pp.se/
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  5. Johannes SixtJun 20, 2008
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  7. Peter KarlssonJun 23, 2008
  8. Peter KarlssonJun 23, 2008
  9. Karl HasselströmJun 24, 2008
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