# Re: Importing from tarballs; add, rm, update-index?

1 messages from 2007-01-12 to 2007-01-12. Participants: Horst H. von Brand.
Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/6355

## Horst H. von Brand, 2007-01-12 15:39

Subject: Re: Importing from tarballs; add, rm, update-index?
Message-ID: <200701121539.l0CFdbR4017026@laptop13.inf.utfsm.cl>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/200701121539.l0CFdbR4017026%40laptop13.inf.utfsm.cl
In-Reply-To: <J.Sixt@eudaptics.com>

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Johannes Sixt <J.Sixt@eudaptics.com> wrote:
> "Horst H. von Brand" wrote:
> > Hum... something like the following (completely untested!) should do the
> > trick:
> > 
> >   cd /basedir
> >   mkdir codebase; cd codebase; git init-db
> >   for version in 1.0 1.1 1.1a 1.1b 2.0.0 ...; do
> >      cd /basedir
> >      tar xf tarball-$version.tar
> >      mv codebase-$version/* codebase    # Take care to move everything!
> >      cd codebase
> >      git add .
> >      git commit -a -m "Updated to $version"
> >      rm -rf *                  # Delete everything except for git stuff
> >   done
> 
> You can let GIT_DIR point somewhere outside the extracted directory.

OK! Then it would be:

   cd /basedir
   mkdir codebase/.git; cd codebase; git init-db
   for version in 1.0 1.1 1.1a 1.1b 2.0.0 ...; do
      cd /basedir
      tar xf tarball-$version.tar
      cd codebase-$version
      git --git-dir=/basedir/codebase/.git add .
      git --git-dir=/basedir/codebase/.git \
          commit -a -m "Updated to $version"    # Spice up to taste
   done

And the "add" looks strangely misplaced... but it /does/ its job.

> If the dates of your tarballs are meaningful, you can use something like
> this:
> 
> export GIT_AUTHOR_DATE="$(date --reference=foo-1.1.tar +%s) -07:00"

Better use it to make up a commit message. Could use inline docs for this.
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