Re: git and linux kernel source

["J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org>]

On Thu, Aug 09, 2007 at 07:17:18PM -0400, bfields wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 09, 2007 at 04:11:46PM -0700, Joe Perches wrote:
> > A few linux kernel source and git questions:
> > 
> > What's the best procedure to handle a tree-wide source tranformation?
> > For instance:
> > 
> >   git branch foo2bar
> >   egrep -r -w --include=*.[ch] -l "foo" * | \
> > 	xargs perl -pi -e 's/\bfoo\b/bar/msg'
> >   git commit -a -m "use bar not foo"
> 
> 
> > Is there a way to separate the resultant single patch into multiple
> > patches by subdirectory?  Perhaps some git-rev-parse option?
> 
> Something like
> 
> 	for each sub/dir:
> 		git add sub/dir
> 		git commit -m "use bar not foo in sub/dir"
> 
> should do it.  (Of course, in the particular case above the patches you
> ended up with probably wouldn't compile individually.)

OK, now I feel like I have to ask--you're not seriously considering
doing anything like that, are you?

--b.