title: Is there an easy way to retrospectively turn Emacs numbered versions of software into git versions?
body: <p>I have some files from an open source project which I edited somewhat, e.g.</p>
  
  <pre><code> Makefile
   Makefile.~1~
   Makefile.~2~
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>These numbered versions are made by Emacs with its numbered version control and are like VMS versioned files</p>
  
  <p>I understand that the Linux project and Perl language project retrospectively put their oldest versions under version control. I would like to retrospectively add the files as untarred from the .tar.gz tarball file and the numbered versions into a version-controlled system.</p>
  
  <p>Is there any relatively easy or simple way to do such a thing? How would I go about writing a script to automate this process?</p>