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>Junio C Hamano <gitster <at> pobox.com>: >> Perhaps not exactly what you are looking for, but don't we have >> import-tar somewhere in contrib/fast-import hierarchy (sorry, not on >> a machine yet, and I cannot give more details). > >If I recall correctly, that can only be used for original import.
You may find my (old) ag-import-patch tool useful. Although the name does not imply it, it allows to import a series of releases that can be available either as tarballs or as patches.
http://ydirson.free.fr/soft/git/argit.git/
There's not much doc in there, and not so much I can remember myself from the short help string. IIRC you can specify which base revision a patch applies to (ie. it may apply to an older revision, not necessarily to the current HEAD).
It has also quite some bitrot (git-* direct invocation, use of cg-tag, surely more).