Re: [git-users] converting timestamped files into Git

2020-02-18 Thread Konstantin Khomoutov
On Tue, Feb 18, 2020 at 05:27:52AM -0800, Steve Cobrin wrote: > Historically we were really old-school and stored different versions of > files with a timestamp appended to the end of the filename, and stashed > them into a directory, e.g. > > foo > .archive/mmdd > > Now we want to put

[git-users] converting timestamped files into Git

2020-02-18 Thread Steve Cobrin
Historically we were really old-school and stored different versions of files with a timestamp appended to the end of the filename, and stashed them into a directory, e.g. foo .archive/mmdd Now we want to put all the instances of the file int a Git repo, is there any easy way to do it?

[git-users] Re: converting timestamped files into Git

2020-02-18 Thread Philip Oakley
Hi Steve, You may need to elaborate a bit more as the options may be wider than you imply, and so needs more information to make the choice. I'm going to guess that what you had was a series of project snapshots (on one of my projects we would 'compressed zip' the super-top level folder, and