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

Chris Riddoch [off-list ref] wrote:

I've got a very, very old codebase I'm trying to wrap my head around.
It was apparently once tracked with RCS, but the ,v files are long
gone and all that remains are a series of tarballs on an FTP site
containing alpha, beta, and final releases of various versions of the
project.  There's a logical progression, but between each there are
new files, deleted files, and lots of changed files.  gitk will at
least help me make sense of the actual changes.  I've got part of a
shell script to automate this process.

Here's the problem.

I have tried to follow the debate on git add, rm, commit -a, etc.  But
I can't figure out how to simply say, take the full state of the
working directory, and make the index directly reflect that state.
Additions, removals, and differences alike.  One step, preferably.

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

Files that don't change will be recorded as is (git tracks contents).
    
Comments?
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