使用tarball将更改合并到Git存储库中

Question

What is the easiest way to manage a git repository without a proper upstream? In my case, the upstream is a single old codger who refuses to make a repository and just releases tarballs occasionally. I still want to be able to merge in his changes to my repo, but how do I do this in the most elegant 'git' way?

Answer 1

Extract the tarballs and copy over all the files into your repo and commit.

For handling deleted/renamed files in the tarballs, you can use options similar to --delete in rsync in your tool of choice to ensure that files that are present in the destination (your repo), but not in the source (extracted tarball), are deleted