Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@xxxxxx> writes: >> 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 ."? It would work only if new version never removes files. -- 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