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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Subject: Re: Considering teaching plumbing to users harmful
Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2008 12:10:00 -0700
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Cc: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org>, git@vger.kernel.org
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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.