Re: git and linux kernel source

["J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org>]

On Thu, Aug 09, 2007 at 04:11:46PM -0700, Joe Perches wrote:
> A few linux kernel source and git questions:
> 
> What's the best procedure to handle a tree-wide source tranformation?
> For instance:
> 
>   git branch foo2bar
>   egrep -r -w --include=*.[ch] -l "foo" * | \
> 	xargs perl -pi -e 's/\bfoo\b/bar/msg'
>   git commit -a -m "use bar not foo"


> 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.)

--b.