Hi, On Thu, 17 Jul 2008, Junio C Hamano wrote: > 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. You made me doubt for a second there. But "git add -u" updates the index when a tracked files was deleted. So after "rm -rf *", "git add -u" would empty the index. AFAICT this has been a part of "git add -u" ever since dfdac5d(git-add -u: match the index with working tree.), i.e. ever since the "-u" option was added. 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
