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On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 01:51:31PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes:
> 
> > Am I the only one who deems teaching plumbing to users ("I like it raw!  
> > So I teach it the same way!") harmful?
> 
> I think that justification is harmful.
> 
> More productive way to think about it is to identify cases where we _need_
> to go down to combination of the plumbing commands in our daily workflow,
> with today's command set.  That would give us a good indication that some
> Porcelain may need to be enhanced.

Is there a way to commit the contents of a tarball without using
plumbing?  I occasionally want to track an upstream that I know only as
a series of tarballs, so I do something like:

	cd repo/
	git checkout upstream
	rm -rf *
	tar -xzvf ../new-version.tar.gz

Then I spend some time mucking around with git-add and git-rm and
eventually end up having to do some sort of git ls-files | git
update-index pipeline.

--b.