Many thanks - That explanation works for me. I just hadn't seen the
association.
Philip
From: "Dirk Süsserott" <newsletter@xxxxxxxxxxx>: Monday, January 02, 2012
6:26 PM
Am 02.01.2012 11:07 schrieb Philip Oakley:
From: "Tomas Carnecky" <tom@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> : Sunday, January 01, 2012
12:27 AM
On 12/31/11 8:04 PM, nn6eumtr wrote:
I have a number of older projects that I want to bring into a git
repository. They predate a lot of the popular scm systems, so they are
primarily a collection of tarballs today.
There is a script which will import sources from multiple tarballs,
creating a commit with the contents of each tarball. It's in the git
repository under contrib/fast-import/import-tars.perl.
I wasn't aware of those scripts. I'll be having a look at the zip import
script for my needs.
tom
Philip
I had a look at the script but Python isn't part of the Msysgit install,
so the example wouldn't run.
Also I couldn't see how the "fast_import.write(" method was being
created - my ignorance of Python? Otherwise I could look at scripting it.
Philip
Philip,
I'm not a Python guy, but I think fast_import.write() writes sth. to
whatever the popen() call in line 24 returned:
fast_import = popen('git fast-import --quiet', 'w')
I guess it returns a filehandle and 'git fast-import' reads its data
from stdin. My guess is, that -- instead of writing to that pipe -- you
could as well write everything to a temporary file and finally call
git fast-import < $tempfile
But that's only a guess.
Dirk
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