Re: [PATCH] User Manual: document import-tars.perl

Hi,

On Wed, 26 Sep 2007, J. Bruce Fields wrote:

On Wed, Sep 26, 2007 at 12:37:04AM +0200, Miklos Vajna wrote:

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Signed-off-by: Miklos Vajna <redacted>
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On Tue, Sep 25, 2007 at 04:13:06PM -0400, "J. Bruce Fields" [off-list ref] wrote:

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One exception--the "series of tarballs" thing--I think it's cool that
you can just unpack a bunch of tarballs and string them together into a
git history.  It gives a good sense of how git works, and I don't think
it's documented explicitly anywhere.  I think that might be kinda fun to
write up.  But I haven't tried.

something like this?

Neat-o, I'd missed (or forgotten about) import-tars.perl.

You should also mention

$ mkdir my-new-repo
$ cd my-new-repo
$ git init
$ for z in /blub/*.zip
  do
	rm -rf * 2> /dev/null &&
	unzip "$z" &&
	git add . &&
	git commit -m "$z" ||
	break
  done

import-tars.pl is much faster than this, of course, when it comes to tars, 
but it has no clue about other archive formats.

Ciao,
Dscho