Re: Help requested - trying to build a tool doing whole-tree commits

2012-11-12 Thread ydirson
esr: >Junio C Hamano 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. You m

Re: Help requested - trying to build a tool doing whole-tree commits

2012-11-11 Thread Eric S. Raymond
Junio C Hamano : > 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 su

Re: Help requested - trying to build a tool doing whole-tree commits

2012-11-10 Thread Felipe Contreras
On Fri, Nov 9, 2012 at 10:50 PM, Andreas Schwab wrote: > Unknown writes: Unknown Invalid? Please don't change the original email, makes it harder for other people to reply. >> I need a command or command sequence that will commit an entire file >> tree to a repository... >> >> (a) Allowing me t

Re: Help requested - trying to build a tool doing whole-tree commits

2012-11-10 Thread Junio C Hamano
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,

Re: Help requested - trying to build a tool doing whole-tree commits

2012-11-09 Thread Andreas Schwab
Unknown writes: > I need a command or command sequence that will commit an entire file > tree to a repository... > > (a) Allowing me to specify committer and author metadata, and > > (b) deleting paths not present in the previous commit on the current > branch, and > > (c) allowing me to specify

Help requested - trying to build a tool doing whole-tree commits

2012-11-09 Thread Eric S. Raymond
(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