From: Jan Hudec <bulb@ucw.cz>
To: Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@iabervon.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>,
Chris Ortman <chrisortman@gmail.com>,
Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>,
git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] Do not show "diff --git" metainfo with --no-prefix
Date: Sat, 19 Jan 2008 10:36:36 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080119093636.GA4281@efreet.light.src> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LNX.1.00.0801152226000.13593@iabervon.org>
On Tue, Jan 15, 2008 at 22:56:14 -0500, Daniel Barkalow wrote:
> On Tue, 15 Jan 2008, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > [...]
> > So maybe a --standard-diff option that removes the "--git" part, but also
> > removes everything else.
>
> That seems wise to me. We should be able to generate patches that are
> accessible to programs that can't follow any clever instructions. I think
> the point of the "Index:" header is that these programs will freak out if
> two filenames don't match (or, more likely, break in some way), and it
> means you can't sensibly generate patches that upset them for deletes or
> creates.
Funny, Subversion has support for explicit renames in core. So I would have
thought it can represent them in it's diffs. Might be worth checking what it
generates for copies and deletes (rename being a copy+delete in SVN) before
creating the converter from git to subversion diffs.
--
Jan 'Bulb' Hudec <bulb@ucw.cz>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-01-19 9:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 53+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-01-15 13:59 [FEATURE REQUEST] git-svn format-patch Chris Ortman
2008-01-15 14:45 ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-01-15 15:58 ` Chris Ortman
2008-01-15 16:13 ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-01-15 16:23 ` Chris Ortman
2008-01-15 16:52 ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-01-15 17:07 ` Chris Ortman
2008-01-15 17:11 ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-01-15 19:04 ` Chris Ortman
2008-01-15 20:15 ` Jan Hudec
2008-01-16 6:41 ` Miles Bader
2008-01-16 6:54 ` Shawn O. Pearce
2008-01-15 17:10 ` Pascal Obry
2008-01-15 23:11 ` Daniel Barkalow
2008-01-16 0:19 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-01-16 0:58 ` [PATCH/RFC] Do not show "diff --git" metainfo with --no-prefix Junio C Hamano
2008-01-16 1:37 ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-01-16 1:46 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-01-16 1:53 ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-01-16 2:04 ` Daniel Barkalow
2008-01-16 2:15 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-01-16 2:08 ` [PATCH v2] " Junio C Hamano
2008-01-16 3:09 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-01-16 3:26 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-01-16 4:04 ` Daniel Barkalow
2008-01-16 4:22 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-01-16 20:19 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-01-16 20:39 ` Daniel Barkalow
2008-01-17 0:57 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-01-17 1:11 ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-01-17 1:19 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-01-17 1:54 ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-01-17 2:28 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-01-17 1:34 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-01-17 1:48 ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-01-17 2:42 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-01-17 2:45 ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-01-17 14:49 ` Jeff King
2008-01-17 15:03 ` Jeff King
2008-01-17 15:12 ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-01-17 15:18 ` Jeff King
2008-01-18 8:22 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-01-16 17:22 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-01-16 3:56 ` Daniel Barkalow
2008-01-19 9:36 ` Jan Hudec [this message]
2008-01-16 4:18 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-01-16 2:01 ` [FEATURE REQUEST] git-svn format-patch Chris Ortman
2008-01-15 20:14 ` Jean-Luc Herren
2008-01-15 20:30 ` Chris Ortman
2008-01-16 2:20 ` Daniel Barkalow
2008-03-11 17:38 ` Nigel Magnay
2008-03-11 19:22 ` Jan Hudec
2008-03-12 4:38 ` Daniel Barkalow
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