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

[Cc: git@vger.kernel.org]

Chris Riddoch 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.

http://git.or.cz/gitwiki/GitFaq#import-tar

(because this kind usage is/should be rare, using plumbing here is not an
error, I think).
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Jakub Narebski
Warsaw, Poland
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