Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > (*) Although I have also noticed that even more often than using "git > apply" outside a git thing, I just import everything into git these days. > So I may not have actually used git-apply outside of a git project in a > long time any more. But I did, a few times. Which makes me wonder, have you looked at (or used) contrib/fast-import/import-tars.perl ? Its Perl, which I know is not your favorite language, but it should be a faster way to get a tar into a Git repository, as we never actually extract the files from the tar, or create loose objects. -- Shawn. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html