git apply vs. renamed files index mismatch (was: Re: [PATCH 1/4] POWERPC: Rename dma_64.c to dma.c)

[Anton Vorontsov <avorontsov@ru.mvista.com>]

On Mon, Sep 08, 2008 at 02:18:42PM -0500, Scott Wood wrote:
> Becky Bruce wrote:
>> This is in preparation for the merge of the 32 and 64-bit
>> dma code in arch/powerpc.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Becky Bruce <becky.bruce@freescale.com>
>> ---
>>  arch/powerpc/kernel/Makefile |    2 +-
>>  arch/powerpc/kernel/dma.c    |  200 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>>  arch/powerpc/kernel/dma_64.c |  200 ------------------------------------------
>>  3 files changed, 201 insertions(+), 201 deletions(-)
>>  create mode 100644 arch/powerpc/kernel/dma.c
>>  delete mode 100644 arch/powerpc/kernel/dma_64.c
>
> Passing -M to git format-patch makes it much easier

I always thought that posting "-M" patches to the public lists is
discouraged since it is quite difficult to apply them via patch(1).
Also think of non-git users...

> to see whether  
> anything changed between the old file and the new file.

This is still possible by comparing the hashes:

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/dma.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/dma.c
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..ae5708e
[...]
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/dma_64.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/dma_64.c
deleted file mode 100644
index ae5708e..0000000

That is, if hashes match then it was pure rename.

Though, too bad git {apply,am} does not produce any warnings if there
are any hidden changes...

Cc'ing git mailing list.

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