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From: "Bahadir Balban" <bahadir.balban@gmail.com>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Adding a new file as if it had existed
Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2006 10:05:08 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7ac1e90c0612120205k38b2fc14jbfd8ea682406efb2@mail.gmail.com> (raw)

Hi,

When I initialise a git repository, I use a subset of files in the
project and leave out irrelevant files for performance reasons. Then
when I need to make changes to a file not yet in the repository, the
file is treated as new, and if I reset the change or change branches
the file is gone.

Is there a good way of adding new files to git as if they had existed
from the initial commit (or even better, since a particular commit)?
This way I would only track the new changes I made to an existing
file.

Thanks,

             reply	other threads:[~2006-12-12 10:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-12-12 10:05 Bahadir Balban [this message]
2006-12-12 10:13 ` Adding a new file as if it had existed Junio C Hamano
2006-12-12 11:32   ` Bahadir Balban
2006-12-12 12:07     ` Johannes Schindelin
2006-12-12 12:26     ` Andy Parkins
2006-12-12 13:20       ` Andreas Ericsson
2006-12-12 18:31     ` Junio C Hamano
2006-12-13  9:40       ` Andreas Ericsson
2006-12-13 15:46         ` Johannes Schindelin
2006-12-13 15:52           ` Andreas Ericsson
2006-12-12 12:36 ` Jakub Narebski

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