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

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Jun 20, 2008, 12:25 UTC
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0806201323390.6439@racer>
In-Reply-To: <20080620115102.GW29404@genesis.frugalware.org>

Hi,

On Fri, 20 Jun 2008, Miklos Vajna wrote:

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> On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 10:42:22AM +0100, Peter Karlsson <peter@softwolves.pp.se> wrote:
> > I am looking at moving a project that has not been version-controlled 
> > in the regular sense into Git. I have found it to currently consist of 
> > 40 directories with copies of the set of files in various shapes.
> > 
> > I have reconstructed something that looks like a probable revision 
> > tree for these 40 directories, and I want to put this into Git so that 
> > I can examine what changes have been made where, and merge the various 
> > versions back together so that there can be one version with all the 
> > various fixes.
> 
> Maybe contrib/fast-import/import-tars.perl?

BTW this is a relatively simple script showing how to import commits into a Git repository using git-fast-import.

You should be able to use git-fast-import from a simple script yourself; if you would like to see an example how to feed fast-import, just export a few commits with "git fast-export HEAD~5..".

Hth, Dscho