From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Junio C Hamano Subject: Re: Help requested - trying to build a tool doing whole-tree commits Date: Sat, 10 Nov 2012 08:57:41 -0800 Message-ID: <7vlie9pf96.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> References: <20121109182024.81074BC66D4@golux> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: git@vger.kernel.org To: "Eric S. Raymond" X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Sat Nov 10 17:58:13 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1TXENo-0000eh-FH for gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org; Sat, 10 Nov 2012 17:58:12 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752083Ab2KJQ57 (ORCPT ); Sat, 10 Nov 2012 11:57:59 -0500 Received: from b-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com ([208.72.237.35]:56824 "EHLO smtp.pobox.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751069Ab2KJQ56 (ORCPT ); Sat, 10 Nov 2012 11:57:58 -0500 Received: from smtp.pobox.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by b-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 408E59EFE; Sat, 10 Nov 2012 11:57:57 -0500 (EST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed; d=pobox.com; h=from:to:cc :subject:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:mime-version :content-type; s=sasl; bh=3RPuMUDRIEByHfMGZfQEvJVUg88=; b=HB8nZd unSmKCXyuiwPL56TknUt53SooHqfsJz+54CHakqrOnARbGH4qTNSmEiEFixZhuYh K+sUZM30mjKi/kbBUMrGRA9J66HFxKgEAaljwbvHUkJH8mPrkB13UcLVUNu4irx/ bINzNTP/ISKNrB+TJvdtILlqmVna8u52NiXes= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=pobox.com; h=from:to:cc :subject:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:mime-version :content-type; q=dns; s=sasl; b=b+ZHGslb9SB/YP80B/jjVrvEwoR/8vWm Sn9cSIfn1LZF3nYuZzPGCYWe56R9kaFqMeAKiiffmggLXI6hTuUUdycoT/N2hlCY QRF97HCfulUGSZ7Rq0qONQtssae1nj9EcA4snz3ILDaI2CMoMz1kW73Svcdw7gMT kVNp2XSCuwk= Received: from b-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by b-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2DEF09EFD; Sat, 10 Nov 2012 11:57:57 -0500 (EST) Received: from pobox.com (unknown [98.234.214.94]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by b-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id E49649EF6; Sat, 10 Nov 2012 11:57:46 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: <20121109182024.81074BC66D4@golux> (unknown@unknown.invalid's message of "Fri, 9 Nov 2012 13:20:24 -0500 (EST)") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.2 (gnu/linux) X-Pobox-Relay-ID: C0AFC694-2B57-11E2-9CE5-54832E706CDE-77302942!b-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Unknown writes: > (Apologies if this arrives twice. I'm on the road, with somewhat flaky email.) > > Because of my work on reposurgeon, I am sometimes asked to produce git > repositories for very old projects that not only are still using CVS > but have ancient releases not in the CVS repository, preserved only > as tarballs. 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).