Re: [PATCH] User Manual: document import-tars.perl

["J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org>]

On Wed, Sep 26, 2007 at 12:37:04AM +0200, Miklos Vajna wrote:
> Signed-off-by: Miklos Vajna <vmiklos@frugalware.org>
> ---
> 
> On Tue, Sep 25, 2007 at 04:13:06PM -0400, "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org> wrote:
> > One exception--the "series of tarballs" thing--I think it's cool that
> > you can just unpack a bunch of tarballs and string them together into a
> > git history.  It gives a good sense of how git works, and I don't think
> > it's documented explicitly anywhere.  I think that might be kinda fun to
> > write up.  But I haven't tried.
> 
> something like this?

Neat-o, I'd missed (or forgotten about) import-tars.perl.

But I'd prefer to keep this first explanation of how to initialize and
commit to a new project pretty streamlined, and I don't think this is
really necessary here.  So let's save this up until we have enough
material for a separate chapter or section on interacting with other
scm's.

--b.

> 
> VMiklos
> 
>  Documentation/user-manual.txt |   13 +++++++++++++
>  1 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/Documentation/user-manual.txt b/Documentation/user-manual.txt
> index a085ca1..f722932 100644
> --- a/Documentation/user-manual.txt
> +++ b/Documentation/user-manual.txt
> @@ -978,6 +978,19 @@ $ git add . # include everything below ./ in the first commit:
>  $ git commit
>  -------------------------------------------------
>  
> +If you already have a series of tarballs (typically previous releases without
> +using a version control system):
> +
> +-------------------------------------------------
> +$ mkdir project
> +$ cd project
> +$ git init
> +$ perl import-tars.perl /path/to/tarballs/*.tar.bz2
> +$ git checkout import-tars
> +-------------------------------------------------
> +
> +You can find `import-tars.perl` in the `contrib/fast-import/` directory.
> +
>  [[how-to-make-a-commit]]
>  How to make a commit
>  --------------------
> -- 
> 1.5.3.2.80.g077d6f-dirty
>