Hello everybody!

I posted this in the LINUX-UBUNTU echo as I use a flavor of it, but it seems to
be a ghost town??? No one home????

Anyway...

Basically I took over from abandonment a project which had code at one time on
Github.... OK.. so I forked it... I've got my own repo of it... I cloned to the
box that will do the updates... The glitch is....

Later versions including the last one were not published on the source Github..
the GitHub one is several years out of date.

I have the raw files in a similar structure as they are on Github in another
directory.... What I am looking to find is a way to take that updated version
and turn it into the new branch I created to merge back into the master branch
on MY Github...

This just raw files, NOT svn, or mercurial etc...

Or do I have to

git checkout -b newfangeldbranch

And then open each file in an editor and cut n paste the new ones in???
Really???

Git ain't my thing.. I am old school I have my own very outdated and manual way
of doing this for stuff I do... others will be involved... so I need to use
something they can handle.

I am sure there is some automated way I can do this...

cp -r ~/lastsource ~/myproject  ???????

Does git track the changes if they are cp'd in??? 
Thanks!

Rick


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