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From: Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz>
To: Martin Langhoff <martin.langhoff@gmail.com>
Cc: Belmar-Letelier <luis@itaapy.com>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: cg-mkpatch use case
Date: Wed, 3 May 2006 00:34:38 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060502223438.GH27631@pasky.or.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <46a038f90605021519x5ee680b0v78dd5c092e1b191f@mail.gmail.com>

Dear diary, on Wed, May 03, 2006 at 12:19:00AM CEST, I got a letter
where Martin Langhoff <martin.langhoff@gmail.com> said that...
> On 5/3/06, Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz> wrote:
> >not many people actually use it nowadays, I believe. You can apply it
> >back using cg-patch (or even patch itself, or git-apply if you are
> >lucky), but it won't automagically extract the commit message and
> >authorship information.
> 
> Erm... I don't personally use it, but cg-patch --long-help tells me...
> 
> -c::
>        Automatically extract the commit message and authorship information
>        (if provided) from the patch and commit it after applying it
>        successfuly.
> 
> Truth in advertising? ;-)

Uhm, no, it just didn't stick in my mind in the storm of cg-patch
improvements. :-) Oops.

So, YES, there IS a way to apply cg-mkpatches preserving autorship and
everything - cg-patch -c. Sorry for the confusion. ;-)

-- 
				Petr "Pasky" Baudis
Stuff: http://pasky.or.cz/
Right now I am having amnesia and deja-vu at the same time.  I think
I have forgotten this before.

      reply	other threads:[~2006-05-02 22:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-05-02  7:47 cg-mkpatch use case Belmar-Letelier
2006-05-02 21:41 ` Martin Langhoff
2006-05-02 21:57 ` Petr Baudis
2006-05-02 22:19   ` Martin Langhoff
2006-05-02 22:34     ` Petr Baudis [this message]

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