From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
To: Alydis <alydis@august8.net>
Cc: git <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Generating patches/Cherry Picking for a large number of commits
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 2009 15:45:56 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090828194556.GA13302@coredump.intra.peff.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ae09c2a40908281226r744141bm3a5bf4161ddab3e7@mail.gmail.com>
On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 02:26:43PM -0500, Alydis wrote:
> I've tried something along these lines:
>
> git clone git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6
> cd linux-2.6
> git checkout -b mybranch v2.6.21
> git format-patch -o patches v2.6.21..v2.6.30 arch/powerpc/boot
> git am -3 patches/*
>
> But, to my dismay, format-patch here tears apart the commits and
> applies ONLY the hunks that apply to the arch/powerpc/boot directory.
> What I'd much rather do is obtain a list of commits that apply to
> arch/powerpc/boot; but, then apply the entire patch.
By default, format-patch (and log, gitk, etc) when given a path limiter
will also limit the diff shown. You can override it with --full-diff.
-Peff
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-08-28 19:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-08-28 19:26 Generating patches/Cherry Picking for a large number of commits Alydis
2009-08-28 19:45 ` Jeff King [this message]
2009-08-28 19:50 ` Alydis
2009-08-28 20:34 ` Jakub Narebski
2009-08-28 22:35 ` Junio C Hamano
2009-08-28 21:54 ` Jeff King
2009-08-28 22:31 ` Junio C Hamano
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