From: Tomas Carnecky <tom@dbservice.com>
To: David Chanters <david.chanters@googlemail.com>
Cc: Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Creating CVS-style patch headers with git-diff
Date: Sat, 08 Jan 2011 16:51:32 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4D288804.2050204@dbservice.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTi=_YdTsvFboQAj447SUtcxrVhM18QkvSVdpvdMJ@mail.gmail.com>
On 1/8/11 4:35 PM, David Chanters wrote:
> Sorry about that, that's poor wording on my part. I don't mean "CVS
> won't barf" -- I meant that GNU Patch can still apply the patch
> without the meta-data referencing git still. I think though this
> "--no-prefix" option might just do it.
Update your gnu patch. Never versions know how to handle the git
specific metadata (gnu patch simply ignores it).
And the a/, b/ prefix is *not* git specific. Pretty much all versions of
a patch program know how to deal with that, you just need to use -p1 on
the commandline.
tom
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-01-08 15:52 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 [this message]
2011-01-08 16:17 ` Andreas Schwab
2011-01-08 15:26 ` Tomas Carnecky
2011-01-08 16:35 ` Robin Rosenberg
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