Re: [Qemu-devel] updating git tree

[Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>]

Laurent Vivier schrieb:
> Le mardi 28 avril 2009 à 15:58 +0200, Kevin Wolf a écrit :
>> François Revol schrieb:
>>>>> Ah, of course, and I don't have the disk space to upgrade from etch 
>>>>> to 
>>>>> lenny...
>>>>> fun.
>>>>>
>>>>> I think I'll just send the diffs from the last svn and be done with 
>>>>> it.
>>>> you can use:
>>>>
>>>> git diff > tmp.patch
>>>> patch -R -p1 < tmp.patch
>>>> git pull
>>>> patch -p1 < tmp.patch
>>> Ok this seems to work at least for now, I've put it in a script like
>>>
>>> #!/bin/sh
>>> git diff > tmp.patch && patch -R -p1 < tmp.patch && git pull && patch -
>>> p1 < tmp.patch && rm tmp.patch
>>>
>>> Seems there is a git-revert, not sure how to use it anyway...
>>> Oh well...
>> git revert is for reverting commits. You can use git reset --hard
>> instead of the patch -R though.
> 
> No, you can't:
> 
> "git diff" will create patch for only already existing files in the git
> repository, so "patch -R" will not remove new files whereas "git reset
> --hard" will remove them.

Oops, right, this doesn't work for staged changes (which is the case for
new files). But in that case, with patch -R the pull won't work because
you still have a modified tree, right? So git diff HEAD should do the
trick by including everything in the patch.

Kevin