From: Tomas Carnecky <tom@dbservice.com>
To: David Chanters <david.chanters@googlemail.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Creating CVS-style patch headers with git-diff
Date: Sat, 08 Jan 2011 16:26:09 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4D288211.3040806@dbservice.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTinx9qM=fjH53UodY0G870Ne3wpFiFEgEGNXxOY7@mail.gmail.com>
On 1/8/11 2:43 PM, David Chanters wrote:
> Would the presense of the other meta-data, such as the "diff --git"
> line as well as the "Index" line cause any problems when applying this
> patch in CVS (I suppose now, my question doesn't have to apply to CVS
I don't know, you tell me. I've never used CVS.
> at all, more likely it will apply to any file sets)? I am not sure
> how GNU Patch uses this meta information, and I assume "git diff" adds
> it for a good reason.
gnu patch most likely doesn't use the index line and ignores all the git
specific additions to the diff format.
tom
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-01-08 15:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-01-08 11:23 Creating CVS-style patch headers with git-diff David Chanters
2011-01-08 11:49 ` Tomas Carnecky
2011-01-08 13:43 ` David Chanters
2011-01-08 15:21 ` Andreas Schwab
2011-01-08 15:35 ` David Chanters
2011-01-08 15:51 ` Tomas Carnecky
2011-01-08 16:17 ` Andreas Schwab
2011-01-08 15:26 ` Tomas Carnecky [this message]
2011-01-08 16:35 ` Robin Rosenberg
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