Re: Should cg-mkpatch output be usable with cg-patch?

[Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz>]

Dear diary, on Thu, Jul 21, 2005 at 01:49:04AM CEST, I got a letter
where Wolfgang Denk <wd@denx.de> told me that...
> I wander what I should do with "cg-mkpatch" generated output;  I  had
> the  impression that this should be usable with "cg-patch", but these
> are incompatible with each other.

They certainly aren't.

> Forexample. if  a  commit  contains permission changes, my generated
> patch may look like this:
> 
> 	...
> 	diff --git a/MAKEALL b/MAKEALL
> 	old mode 100644
> 	new mode 100755
> 	diff --git a/mkconfig b/mkconfig
> 	old mode 100644
> 	new mode 100755
> 	diff --git a/tools/img2brec.sh b/tools/img2brec.sh
> 	old mode 100644
> 	new mode 100755
> 	...
> 
> If I feed this into "cg-patch", I get:
> 
> 	patch: **** Only garbage was found in the patch input.

And did the changes apply? :-)

The message is surely confusing, but appeared to be rather corner-casy
and after I imagined the required complexity of filtering this, I
decided to spend my time on something more useful for the time being. :)

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