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From: Alan Chandler <alan@chandlerfamily.org.uk>
Subject: Re: little conundrum
Date: Thu, 3 Nov 2005 22:02:18 +0000
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On Thursday 03 Nov 2005 17:47, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Thu, 3 Nov 2005, Alan Chandler wrote:
> > 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.
>
> How about this:
>
> 	cd orig/
> 	git-init-db
> 	git-add $(find * -type f)
> 	git-commit -m "initial"
> 	cd ../modified
> 	mv ../orig/.git ./
> 	git-add $(find * -type f)
> 	git-commit -a -m "my modifications"
>
> Of course -- in the great tradition of this list -- totally untested.

Also untested, but what about removing the files from the index that aren't in 
the working directory?

-- 
Alan Chandler
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