Re: Efficient way to import snapshots?

Linus Torvalds wrote:

On Mon, 30 Jul 2007, Craig Boston wrote:

quoted

So far the main snag I've found is that AFAIK there's no equivalent to
"svk import" to load a big tree (~37000 files) into a branch and commit
the changes.  Here's the procedure I've come up with:

cd /path/to/git/repo
git checkout vendor_branch_X
git rm -r .
cp -R /path/to/cvs/checkout_X/* ./
git add .
git commit -m"Import yyyymmdd snapshot"

Ouch.

What you want to do should fit git very well, but doing it that way is 
quite expensive.

Might I suggest just doing the .git thing *directly* in the CVS checkout 
instead?

[...]

And you can try to use git-fast-import. Check out
contrib/fast-import/import-tars.perl script (adapting it to your purpose).

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Jakub Narebski
Warsaw, Poland
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