On Wed, Sep 26, 2007 at 12:37:04AM +0200, Miklos Vajna wrote: > Signed-off-by: Miklos Vajna <vmiklos@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > --- > > On Tue, Sep 25, 2007 at 04:13:06PM -0400, "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > 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. But I'd prefer to keep this first explanation of how to initialize and commit to a new project pretty streamlined, and I don't think this is really necessary here. So let's save this up until we have enough material for a separate chapter or section on interacting with other scm's. --b. > > VMiklos > > Documentation/user-manual.txt | 13 +++++++++++++ > 1 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/Documentation/user-manual.txt b/Documentation/user-manual.txt > index a085ca1..f722932 100644 > --- a/Documentation/user-manual.txt > +++ b/Documentation/user-manual.txt > @@ -978,6 +978,19 @@ $ git add . # include everything below ./ in the first commit: > $ git commit > ------------------------------------------------- > > +If you already have a series of tarballs (typically previous releases without > +using a version control system): > + > +------------------------------------------------- > +$ mkdir project > +$ cd project > +$ git init > +$ perl import-tars.perl /path/to/tarballs/*.tar.bz2 > +$ git checkout import-tars > +------------------------------------------------- > + > +You can find `import-tars.perl` in the `contrib/fast-import/` directory. > + > [[how-to-make-a-commit]] > How to make a commit > -------------------- > -- > 1.5.3.2.80.g077d6f-dirty > - 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
