On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 01:51:31PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote: > Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@xxxxxx> writes: > > > Am I the only one who deems teaching plumbing to users ("I like it raw! > > So I teach it the same way!") harmful? > > I think that justification is harmful. > > More productive way to think about it is to identify cases where we _need_ > to go down to combination of the plumbing commands in our daily workflow, > with today's command set. That would give us a good indication that some > Porcelain may need to be enhanced. Is there a way to commit the contents of a tarball without using plumbing? I occasionally want to track an upstream that I know only as a series of tarballs, so I do something like: cd repo/ git checkout upstream rm -rf * tar -xzvf ../new-version.tar.gz Then I spend some time mucking around with git-add and git-rm and eventually end up having to do some sort of git ls-files | git update-index pipeline. --b. -- 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