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From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
To: "Bahadir Balban" <bahadir.balban@gmail.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Adding a new file as if it had existed
Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2006 02:13:06 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7vhcw1whfx.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7ac1e90c0612120205k38b2fc14jbfd8ea682406efb2@mail.gmail.com> (Bahadir Balban's message of "Tue, 12 Dec 2006 10:05:08 +0000")

"Bahadir Balban" <bahadir.balban@gmail.com> writes:

> 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.

No.

I do not understand why not adding all the files you care about
eventually anyway in the initial commit is needed for
"performance reasons", if you do not touch majority of them for
a long time.  Care to explain?


  reply	other threads:[~2006-12-12 10:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-12-12 10:05 Adding a new file as if it had existed Bahadir Balban
2006-12-12 10:13 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
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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