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From: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org>
Subject: Re: Considering teaching plumbing to users harmful
Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2008 10:35:24 -0400
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On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 12:10:00PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes:
> 
> > On Thu, 17 Jul 2008, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> >
> >> Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes:
> >> 
> >> >> 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
> >> >
> >> > How about "git add -u" and "git add ."?
> >> 
> >> It would work only if new version never removes files.
> >
> > You made me doubt for a second there.  But "git add -u" updates the index 
> > when a tracked files was deleted.  So after "rm -rf *", "git add -u" would 
> > empty the index.
> 
> I thought everybody would react to my message like so after sending it ;-)
> What I failed to say was that the main uneasiness about the above command
> sequence Bruce or anybody would have felt would be that "rm -fr *" step,
> which in itself look scary and does not remove .frotz that came from older
> version.

Yeah, good point, that's not very careful.

But actually it's "add -u" that I missed--I forgot it would take into
account removed files as well.  Thanks!

--b.