Re: [FEATURE REQUEST] git-svn format-patch

["Nigel Magnay" <nigel.magnay@gmail.com>]

Did there ever become a way of generating svn format diffs from git?

A project is having a hard time applying my format-patch --no-prefix
diffs, but I don't have a tortoiseSVN machine to figure out why..

On Wed, Jan 16, 2008 at 2:20 AM, Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@iabervon.org> wrote:
> On Tue, 15 Jan 2008, Chris Ortman wrote:
>
>
> > You are correct about Tortoise in that it is too strict.
>  > I looked through their code and they have written their own patch
>  > program which keys off these Index: lines
>  > http://tortoisesvn.tigris.org/svn/tortoisesvn/trunk/src/TortoiseMerge/Patch.cpp
>  >
>  > I think it could go either way as to if git-svn creates a different
>  > format patch or tsvn accepts multiple formats, but I anticipated
>  > git-svn would be easier to extend so I started here.
>
>  I think it would be worthwhile for tsvn to be less picky in some ways. It
>  should at least be able to accept GNU diff, since sometimes people send
>  maintainers patches prepared by hand (diff -u file.c.orig file.c), and
>  there are comments in there that suggest that they're trying to support
>  non-svn-generated diffs, although they seem to think that such diffs look
>  like:
>
>  Index: filename
>  ============
>  @@ -xxx,xxx +xxx,xxx @@
>  ...
>
>  which isn't anything I've ever seen. You're much more likely to get:
>
>  ...junk...
>  --- junk
>  +++ filename    junk
>  @@ -xxx,xxx +xxx,xxx @@
>
>  And that should be easy enough to parse as an alternative format in tsvn.
>  (I'd send them a patch to do it, but they wouldn't be able to apply it...)
>
>
>         -Daniel
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