title: migrating existing project to git
body: <p>I recently started using Git when creating a new project - until then I only did regular backups of the projects just by zipping the source of each and everyone. So I now have several DD.MM.YYYY.zip files for each (old) project - by the way each project has only one branch.</p>
  
  <p>Now I want to get rid of all these .zip files and port everything to Git. Here is what I thought of:</p>
  
  <pre><code>Create a new repository.
  
      git init
  
  Copy the files from the oldest .zip file into the repository.
  
      git add ...
      git commit ...
  
  Delete the files copied from the oldest .zip file.
  Copy the files from the second oldest .zip file into the repository.
  
      git add ...
      git commit ...
  
  Delete the files copied from the second oldest .zip file.
  ...
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Is this going to work? Is there any better solution to achive what I want?</p>
  
  <hr>
  
  <p><strong>Additional:</strong><br>
  For some (old) projects I started a Git repository with the newest source and continued programming. For these projects there are still some DD.MM.YYYY.zip files laying around - is there any way to perform a commit to the beginning of a project? (May be a dumb question, but feel free to suggest me something else.)</p>