1 README for archives2git
2 =======================
4 `archives2git` is intended to recreate a poor-man's history from the (release)
5 archives of a project. It is an sh script that commits the given file archives
6 to a Git repository as a series of commits; by default the commit (sub-)trees
7 will replicate the contents of their corresponding archive.
12 For the documentation see the manual of linkpage:archives2git[1] (or the help
13 message output), then look inside the configuration file example
14 link:archives2gitrc[.archives2gitrc] and finally inside the
15 link:archives2git[script].
19 $ cd git-repo # may be a subdir of the toplevel of a repo
20 $ GIT_AUTHOR_NAME="Firstname Lastname" GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL=user@host \
21 archives2git --tag ../oldproject-?.??.tar.gz
26 * Trailing newlines in file names are not supported.
33 * `aunpack` from link:http://www.nongnu.org/atool/[atool]