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From: "Zorba" <cr@altmore.co.uk>
Subject: Re: is there an easier way to do this ?
Date: Tue, 30 Dec 2008 23:20:32 -0000
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thanks Jakub, but I don't mind copying the versions in by hand and running 
the git commits on them sequentially.

I only have 5 max historical versions to archive..

"Jakub Narebski" <jnareb@gmail.com> wrote in message 
news:m3k59hb6xr.fsf@localhost.localdomain...
> "Zorba" <cr@altmore.co.uk> writes:
>
>> ok, now I'm in this for real, archiving versions of our website project 
>> (5k
>> files approx)
>>
>> so here is the workflow:
>>
>> - copy version 1 files into GIT dir
>>
>> - open git bash
>>
>> $ git init
>>
>> $ git add .
>>
>> $ git commit -m "version1"
>>
>> all vanilla ? cool
>> next job = store version 2 [...]
>
> Check out contrib/fast-import/import-tars.perl
>
> -- 
> Jakub Narebski
> Poland
> ShadeHawk on #git