I do not do that for test repositories, but for untarred 3rd party
projects, such as zlib.
$ tar xvf $TAR
$ cd $DIR
$ git init
$ git add .
$ git commit -m initial
<start hacking>
<provide nice patches that everybody envies me for>
Ciao,
Dscho
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