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From: Johannes Sixt <J.Sixt@eudaptics.com>
Subject: Re: Importing from tarballs; add, rm, update-index?
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"Horst H. von Brand" wrote:
> Hum... something like the following (completely untested!) should do the
> trick:
> 
>   cd /basedir
>   mkdir codebase; cd codebase; git init-db
>   for version in 1.0 1.1 1.1a 1.1b 2.0.0 ...; do
>      cd /basedir
>      tar xf tarball-$version.tar
>      mv codebase-$version/* codebase    # Take care to move everything!
>      cd codebase
>      git add .
>      git commit -a -m "Updated to $version"
>      rm -rf *                  # Delete everything except for git stuff
>   done

You can let GIT_DIR point somewhere outside the extracted directory.

If the dates of your tarballs are meaningful, you can use something like
this:

export GIT_AUTHOR_DATE="$(date --reference=foo-1.1.tar +%s) -07:00"

   
-- Hannes