From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Joe Perches Subject: Re: git and linux kernel source Date: Thu, 09 Aug 2007 18:59:47 -0700 Message-ID: <1186711187.3073.75.camel@localhost> References: <1186701106.3073.71.camel@localhost> <20070809231718.GH12875@fieldses.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: git@vger.kernel.org To: "J. Bruce Fields" X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Fri Aug 10 04:00:07 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1IJJnF-0003Ub-Mv for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Fri, 10 Aug 2007 04:00:02 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758410AbXHJB76 (ORCPT ); Thu, 9 Aug 2007 21:59:58 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1758357AbXHJB76 (ORCPT ); Thu, 9 Aug 2007 21:59:58 -0400 Received: from DSL022.labridge.com ([206.117.136.22]:3349 "EHLO Perches.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1758296AbXHJB74 (ORCPT ); Thu, 9 Aug 2007 21:59:56 -0400 Received: from [192.168.1.128] ([192.168.1.128]) by Perches.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id SAA27043; Thu, 9 Aug 2007 18:53:36 -0700 In-Reply-To: <20070809231718.GH12875@fieldses.org> X-Mailer: Evolution 2.10.2-2.1mdv2007.1 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Thu, 2007-08-09 at 19:17 -0400, J. Bruce Fields wrote: > > 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.) Nor would it likely survive a git bisect, but it's a start. My goal is to eventually commit by maintainer. Thanks, Joe