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

Johannes Sixt [off-list ref] wrote:

"Horst H. von Brand" wrote:

quoted

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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