From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on dcvr.yhbt.net X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-ASN: AS31976 209.132.176.0/21 X-Spam-Status: No, score=-3.5 required=3.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,MSGID_FROM_MTA_HEADER,RP_MATCHES_RCVD shortcircuit=no autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 From: Junio C Hamano Subject: Re: Adding a new file as if it had existed Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2006 02:13:06 -0800 Message-ID: <7vhcw1whfx.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> References: <7ac1e90c0612120205k38b2fc14jbfd8ea682406efb2@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2006 10:13:24 +0000 (UTC) Cc: git@vger.kernel.org Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org In-Reply-To: <7ac1e90c0612120205k38b2fc14jbfd8ea682406efb2@mail.gmail.com> (Bahadir Balban's message of "Tue, 12 Dec 2006 10:05:08 +0000") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/21.4 (gnu/linux) Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by dough.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Gu4dM-0007y5-Tx for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Tue, 12 Dec 2006 11:13:13 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751061AbWLLKNJ (ORCPT ); Tue, 12 Dec 2006 05:13:09 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751082AbWLLKNJ (ORCPT ); Tue, 12 Dec 2006 05:13:09 -0500 Received: from fed1rmmtao10.cox.net ([68.230.241.29]:47122 "EHLO fed1rmmtao10.cox.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751061AbWLLKNH (ORCPT ); Tue, 12 Dec 2006 05:13:07 -0500 Received: from fed1rmimpo02.cox.net ([70.169.32.72]) by fed1rmmtao10.cox.net (InterMail vM.6.01.06.03 201-2131-130-104-20060516) with ESMTP id <20061212101306.NXKS20715.fed1rmmtao10.cox.net@fed1rmimpo02.cox.net>; Tue, 12 Dec 2006 05:13:06 -0500 Received: from assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net ([68.5.247.80]) by fed1rmimpo02.cox.net with bizsmtp id xmDH1V00R1kojtg0000000; Tue, 12 Dec 2006 05:13:18 -0500 To: "Bahadir Balban" Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org "Bahadir Balban" 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?