From: "Eric S. Raymond" <esr@thyrsus.com>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Help requested - trying to build a tool doing whole-tree commits
Date: Sun, 11 Nov 2012 08:47:22 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20121111144722.GA3593@thyrsus.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7vlie9pf96.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>:
> Perhaps not exactly what you are looking for, but don't we have
> import-tar somewhere in contrib/fast-import hierarchy (sorry, not on
> a machine yet, and I cannot give more details).
If I recall correctly, that can only be used for original import.
I think Andreas Schwab's suggestion (git add -A && git write-tree &&
git commit-tree && git update-ref) is probably the right thing. I'm
going to try that.
--
<a href="http://www.catb.org/~esr/">Eric S. Raymond</a>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-11-11 15:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-11-09 18:20 Help requested - trying to build a tool doing whole-tree commits Unknown, Eric S. Raymond
2012-11-09 21:50 ` Andreas Schwab
2012-11-10 19:24 ` Felipe Contreras
2012-11-10 16:57 ` Junio C Hamano
2012-11-11 14:47 ` Eric S. Raymond [this message]
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2012-11-12 13:11 ` ydirson
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