Re: Merging non-git releases of a project

[Peter Baumann <waste.manager@gmx.de>]

On Fri, Oct 09, 2009 at 06:43:50PM -0400, Avery Pennarun wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 5:33 PM, Howard Miller
> <howard@e-learndesign.co.uk> wrote:
> > I'm missing the point here though. Where/when  do I actually add the
> > new pristine code? If I checkout, as you suggest, my initial commit I
> > just have (say) v1.0 of the vendor's code. I can't just copy (say)
> > version 1.2 on top as the files probably won't match one-one.
> >
> > Sorry - I'm probably completely failing to understand.
> 
> Try this:
> 
>    cd mygitproject
>    git rm -rf .
>    cp -a /tmp/wherever/vendor-1.2/. .
>    git add .

This won't commit deleted files from v1.0 - v1.2. Use git add -A to stage all
modified and deleted files for the next commit.

>    git commit
> 
> Don't worry, git won't double-store files that are identical between
> the old 1.0 and new 1.2 versions.