Hi, On Thu, 17 Jul 2008, J. Bruce Fields wrote: > 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 How about "git add -u" and "git add ."? Ciao, Dscho -- 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