Hi, On Thu, Mar 05, 2009 at 09:02:11AM +0000, Kevin Donnelly wrote: > On Wednesday 04 March 2009 07:34, Clifford Wolf wrote: > > btw: I'm using git a lot for projects that actually are in svn or another > > scm. in this cases I have a local git repository syncing from the projects > > central scm. there I can play around with different branches use rebase and > > all the funny git features and finally send patches to the projects mailing > > lists.. > > For interest, how exactly do you do this?
for stuff that's upstream in an svn repository I often use git-svn. but in most cases my starting point is just a tar archive or the ast release or something alike. in this cases I often start doing modifications in the plain extracted sources and recognise at a later point that I should have used an scm to track my changes. Then I'm using a simple shell script I wrote: http://svn.clifford.at/tools/trunk/git-kickin.sh This script is executed in the extraced sources and is passed the original tar archive as argument. it then creates a .git directory with the content of the tar archive as initial commit. its a trivial task but it has turned out to be pretty helpfull to have a script do this job.. yours, - clifford -- To understand recursion, you must first understand recursion.