Re: little conundrum

["Peter Eriksen" <s022018@student.dtu.dk>]

On Thu, Nov 03, 2005 at 05:41:20PM +0000, Alan Chandler wrote:
> I have a little problem I am trying to solve.  Tried a few things and got 
> nowhere, so I thought I would ask here.
> 
> I have two directories one of which contains a tree of source code that was an 
> original software package that I downloaded.  The other contains the result 
> of some unfinished - but quite substancial changes that I had made to that 
> source code.  Since this was some time ago, I don't have any records, but it 
> is quite possible that I added and removed quite a few files.
> 
> I would like to make myself a git repository that contains at the start, an 
> initial commit of the original downloaded source code, and a second commit on 
> the top of that that contains the the current state of play after the changes 
> I have made.

What I read from this, is that you could do something like (with Git,
but I suppose Cogito is very similar):

]cd original
]git-init-db
]git-add all-the-files
]git-commit -m "Initial import"
]cp -rf ../modified/* .
]git-status
...fix things up adding and deleting files
]git-commit -m "First big change

The point is, I think git-status will tell you about any
modifications you have made by just overwriting the original
tree with the modified one.

Peter