git.vger.kernel.org archive mirror
 help / color / mirror / Atom feed
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>

  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]
     [not found] <931951238.74665890.1352725212354.JavaMail.root@zimbra39-e7.priv.proxad.net>
2012-11-12 13:11 ` ydirson

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to=20121111144722.GA3593@thyrsus.com \
    --to=esr@thyrsus.com \
    --cc=git@vger.kernel.org \
    --cc=gitster@pobox.com \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for NNTP newsgroup(s).