Thanks Daniel, I'm not a tar man anyhow, so that would be one more thing to learn. So I'll pass, but someone else into unix will find this useful (maybe me, a few mths down the track) Believe it or not, I had budgeted half a day for getting git installed, learned, and all the versions safely stowed away. That was on Xmas eve (24th Dec.) I've been on this every day since - gawd, its becoming an Odyssey. SCM is a support to my software development, which is a support to my business (a user business, not technology based) and iin a normal year (not like this current one) would be <10% of our effort. I can sense the beauty of git, but A WEEK ! to get close to making the first LIVE COMMIT. I'm going to assert that a large number of possible users will not be interested, or how shall I put it better, they'l be very interested in git, but that's where it will stay. The blogosphere is littered with the burnt bodies of those who have tried to ride this dragon. Gawd its tempting to give up and install CVS or something, the only thing keeping me going is that I HATE quitting ! What is it about this stuff ? I am not unintelligent but struggling with this. It seems like to do something simple you have to understand EVERYTHING - its not like other systems with a clear set of "basic", "intermediate" and "advanced" commands that are fairly standalone. everything in git seems so interleaved - its like relativity, or nuclear physics ! I'm sure git nirvana is coming sometiime for me, gawd please may it be in this lifetime! :-) "Daniel Barkalow" <barkalow@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:alpine.LNX.1.00.0812281326300.19665@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > On Fri, 26 Dec 2008, Conor Rafferty wrote: > >> We want to use git to >> a) archive old versions of our project that have till now had no SCM >> applied > > There's actually an importer for this; if you can put all of the old > versions into tar files in the same format and list them in order, you can > use "import-tars.perl", which is in contrib/fast-import in the git source > tree. Of course, using that won't teach you anything about the tools, but > it might be the best way to get the real import done with the least chance > of mistakes. > > -Daniel > *This .sig left intentionally blank* -- 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
