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

[Miklos Vajna <vmiklos@frugalware.org>]

Signed-off-by: Miklos Vajna <vmiklos@frugalware.org>
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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?

VMiklos

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@@ -978,6 +978,19 @@ $ git add . # include everything below ./ in the first commit:
 $ git commit
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+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
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