Re: git and linux kernel source

[Rogan Dawes <lists@dawes.za.net>]

J. Bruce Fields wrote:
> 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.

Have you seen LKML recently? Maybe that will answer your question. (A 
500+ patch mail bomb . . .)

Rogan