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From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Subject: Re: Generating patches/Cherry Picking for a large number of commits
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 2009 15:45:56 -0400
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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