From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Cc: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Considering teaching plumbing to users harmful
Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2008 11:29:13 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7vtzeofjpi.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0807171915420.8986@racer> (Johannes Schindelin's message of "Thu, 17 Jul 2008 19:16:37 +0100 (BST)")
Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> 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.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-07-17 18:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 114+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-07-16 17:21 Considering teaching plumbing to users harmful Johannes Schindelin
2008-07-16 17:50 ` Jesper Eskilson
2008-07-16 18:14 ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-07-16 18:19 ` Jesper Eskilson
2008-07-16 18:27 ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-07-16 17:53 ` Avery Pennarun
2008-07-16 18:12 ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-07-16 18:35 ` Avery Pennarun
2008-07-16 20:13 ` Theodore Tso
2008-07-16 21:53 ` Daniel Barkalow
2008-07-17 11:18 ` David Kastrup
2008-07-17 15:52 ` Jakub Narebski
2008-07-17 16:05 ` David Kastrup
2008-07-17 16:18 ` Subversion's do-everything-via-copying paradigm ( was RE: Re: Considering teaching plumbing to users harmful) Craig L. Ching
2008-07-17 21:05 ` David Kastrup
2008-07-17 22:06 ` Craig L. Ching
2008-07-17 22:07 ` Avery Pennarun
2008-07-17 22:11 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-07-17 20:04 ` Considering teaching plumbing to users harmful Jakub Narebski
2008-07-17 20:12 ` Kevin Ballard
2008-07-17 20:26 ` Petr Baudis
2008-07-17 20:40 ` Kevin Ballard
2008-07-17 21:03 ` Jakub Narebski
2008-07-17 21:10 ` Kevin Ballard
2008-07-17 20:34 ` Jakub Narebski
2008-07-17 20:42 ` Kevin Ballard
2008-07-17 20:15 ` Kevin Ballard
2008-07-17 21:02 ` David Kastrup
2008-07-17 22:32 ` Robin Rosenberg
2008-07-18 7:41 ` Dmitry Potapov
2008-07-17 16:11 ` Subversion is actually not so simple (was RE: Considering teaching plumbing to users harmful) Craig L. Ching
2008-07-17 17:37 ` Jakub Narebski
2008-07-17 19:00 ` Considering teaching plumbing to users harmful Daniel Barkalow
2008-07-16 18:18 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-07-16 18:51 ` Avery Pennarun
2008-07-16 18:59 ` Petr Baudis
2008-07-16 19:22 ` Avery Pennarun
2008-07-16 19:09 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-07-16 19:29 ` Avery Pennarun
2008-07-16 19:34 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-07-16 19:46 ` Avery Pennarun
2008-07-16 20:12 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-07-16 22:32 ` Theodore Tso
2008-07-16 22:41 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-07-16 22:53 ` Sean Kelley
2008-07-16 23:17 ` Nigel Magnay
2008-07-17 3:21 ` Stephen Sinclair
2008-07-18 17:02 ` Ping Yin
2008-07-16 22:24 ` Dmitry Potapov
2008-07-16 22:28 ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-07-16 22:49 ` Theodore Tso
2008-07-17 0:25 ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-07-17 2:47 ` Theodore Tso
2008-07-17 14:21 ` Craig L. Ching
2008-07-17 14:51 ` Petr Baudis
2008-07-17 15:57 ` J. Bruce Fields
2008-07-16 21:16 ` david
2008-07-16 21:59 ` Dmitry Potapov
2008-07-16 20:23 ` Stephen R. van den Berg
2008-07-16 20:27 ` Nicolas Pitre
2008-07-16 20:51 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-07-16 23:05 ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-07-16 23:40 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-07-17 0:02 ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-07-17 6:53 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-07-17 15:55 ` J. Bruce Fields
2008-07-17 16:03 ` Karl Hasselström
2008-07-17 18:16 ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-07-17 18:29 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2008-07-17 18:43 ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-07-17 19:10 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-07-18 14:35 ` J. Bruce Fields
2008-07-18 9:55 ` Addremove equivalent [was: Re: Considering teaching plumbing to users harmful] Michael J Gruber
2008-07-18 20:18 ` Jay Soffian
2008-07-18 23:03 ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-07-20 3:27 ` Addremove equivalent Junio C Hamano
2008-07-20 3:28 ` [PATCH 1/2] builtin-add.c: restructure the code for maintainability Junio C Hamano
2008-07-20 3:29 ` [PATCH 2/2] git-add -a: add all files Junio C Hamano
2008-07-20 3:32 ` [PATCH 3/2] git-add -a: tests Junio C Hamano
2008-07-20 4:20 ` [PATCH 2/2] git-add -a: add all files Tarmigan
2008-07-20 4:28 ` Tarmigan
2008-07-20 10:56 ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-07-20 12:45 ` Jay Soffian
2008-07-20 18:30 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-07-20 20:46 ` Lars Noschinski
2008-07-20 23:59 ` Jeff King
2008-07-21 0:06 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-07-21 0:17 ` Jeff King
2008-07-21 0:22 ` Jeff King
2008-07-21 2:11 ` Jay Soffian
2008-07-20 20:34 ` Sverre Rabbelier
2008-07-16 21:48 ` Considering teaching plumbing to users harmful Dmitry Potapov
2008-07-16 23:19 ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-07-16 22:09 ` Stephan Beyer
2008-07-16 23:22 ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-07-17 1:01 ` Stephan Beyer
2008-07-17 7:30 ` "Peter Valdemar Mørch (Lists)"
2008-07-17 12:38 ` Dmitry Potapov
2008-07-17 12:55 ` Theodore Tso
2008-07-17 13:35 ` Peter Valdemar Mørch
2008-07-17 14:26 ` Theodore Tso
2008-07-17 16:38 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-07-18 8:19 ` Andreas Ericsson
2008-07-18 18:26 ` Jeff King
2008-07-18 10:14 ` Suggestion: doc restructuring [was: Re: Considering teaching plumbing to users harmful] Michael J Gruber
2008-07-18 18:26 ` Jon Loeliger
2008-07-18 18:52 ` Craig L. Ching
2008-07-18 19:50 ` Suggestion: doc restructuring Junio C Hamano
2008-07-19 1:19 ` Suggestion: doc restructuring [was: Re: Considering teaching plumbing to users harmful] Johannes Schindelin
2008-07-20 8:14 ` Suggestion: doc restructuring Junio C Hamano
2008-07-20 11:02 ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-07-21 6:41 ` Andreas Ericsson
2008-07-21 10:04 ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-07-21 16:22 ` Junio C Hamano
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=7vtzeofjpi.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org \
--to=gitster@pobox.com \
--cc=Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de \
--cc=bfields@fieldses.org \
--cc=git@vger.kernel.org \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is an external index of several public inboxes,
see mirroring instructions on how to clone and mirror
all data and code used by this external index.