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16 changes: 16 additions & 0 deletions README.md
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Software to reconstruct git history from tarballs.

https://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=139033182525831

# Installing

## Ubuntu 16.04

The Git package in Xenial is too old, so you'll need to upgrade it.

```sh
git clone https://github.com/ali1234/gitxref.git
cd gitxref/
sudo python3 setup.py install

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:git-core/ppa
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install git
```
2 changes: 1 addition & 1 deletion setup.py
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author='Alistair Buxton',
author_email='[email protected]',
description='',
install_requires=['numpy', 'tqdm'],
install_requires=['numpy', 'tqdm', 'gitpython'],
entry_points={
'console_scripts': [
'gitxref = gitxref.__main__:main'
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