From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Philip Oakley" Subject: Re: How to deal with historic tar-balls Date: Mon, 2 Jan 2012 10:07:47 -0000 Organization: OPDS Message-ID: <4C50794C7EED42A0B1A25ABD77CE7DB0@PhilipOakley> References: <4EFF5CDA.5050809@gmail.com> <4EFFA868.50605@dbservice.com> Reply-To: "Philip Oakley" Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="UTF-8"; reply-type=original Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: "Git List" To: "Philip Oakley" , "Tomas Carnecky" , "nn6eumtr" X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Mon Jan 02 11:07:37 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Rheno-000636-JJ for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Mon, 02 Jan 2012 11:07:36 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751596Ab2ABKH2 (ORCPT ); Mon, 2 Jan 2012 05:07:28 -0500 Received: from out1.ip08ir2.opaltelecom.net ([62.24.128.244]:16317 "EHLO out1.ip08ir2.opaltelecom.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751009Ab2ABKH1 (ORCPT ); Mon, 2 Jan 2012 05:07:27 -0500 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AoojAC6BAU9Z8rT1/2dsb2JhbABEggWDCoVNoXmBBoFtAQQBAQUIAQEZFR4BASELAgMFAgEDFQMCAgUhAgIUAQQaBgcXBgESCAIBAgMBhTeCKQujNZBVgS+JSjNjBI0xmgU X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.71,444,1320624000"; d="scan'208";a="512903583" Received: from host-89-242-180-245.as13285.net (HELO PhilipOakley) ([89.242.180.245]) by out1.ip08ir2.opaltelecom.net with SMTP; 02 Jan 2012 10:07:25 +0000 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.5931 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.6157 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: From: "Philip Oakley" : Sunday, January 01, 2012 6:30 PM > From: "Tomas Carnecky" : Sunday, January 01, 2012 > 12:27 AM >>On 12/31/11 8:04 PM, nn6eumtr wrote: >>> I have a number of older projects that I want to bring into a git >>> repository. They predate a lot of the popular scm systems, so they are >>> primarily a collection of tarballs today. >> There is a script which will import sources from multiple tarballs, >> creating a commit with the contents of each tarball. It's in the git >> repository under contrib/fast-import/import-tars.perl. > I wasn't aware of those scripts. I'll be having a look at the zip import > script for my needs. > >> tom > Philip > I had a look at the script but Python isn't part of the Msysgit install, so the example wouldn't run. Also I couldn't see how the "fast_import.write(" method was being created - my ignorance of Python? Otherwise I could look at scripting it. Philip