File Content: git-import.sh #!/bin/sh # # Performs an initial import of a directory. This is the equivalent # of doing 'git init; git add .; git commit'. It's a lot slower, # but is meant to be a simple fast-import example. if [ -z "$1" -o -z "$2" ]; then echo "usage: git-import branch import-message" exit 1 fi USERNAME="$(git config user.name)" EMAIL="$(git config user.email)" if [ -z "$USERNAME" -o -z "$EMAIL" ]; then echo "You need to set user name and email" exit 1 fi git init ( cat <<EOF commit refs/heads/$1 committer $USERNAME <$EMAIL> now data <<MSGEOF $2 MSGEOF EOF find * -type f|while read i;do echo "M 100644 inline $i" echo data $(stat -c '%s' "$i") cat "$i" echo done echo ) | git fast-import --date-format=now Submit