From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Paolo Ciarrocchi" Subject: How to split a patch Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2008 10:05:31 +0100 Message-ID: <4d8e3fd30801280105g2876cedfjbe1ba323ede57e0a@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: "gi mailing list" X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Mon Jan 28 10:06:48 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1JJPwn-0000ff-7w for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Mon, 28 Jan 2008 10:06:33 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752550AbYA1JFf (ORCPT ); Mon, 28 Jan 2008 04:05:35 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752615AbYA1JFf (ORCPT ); Mon, 28 Jan 2008 04:05:35 -0500 Received: from hs-out-0708.google.com ([64.233.178.240]:56908 "EHLO hs-out-2122.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750878AbYA1JFd (ORCPT ); Mon, 28 Jan 2008 04:05:33 -0500 Received: by hs-out-2122.google.com with SMTP id 54so1481912hsz.5 for ; Mon, 28 Jan 2008 01:05:32 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition; bh=8F/sFWNTTbISS88QxtDylYYvgvKTpSfDC8YxyFiDYn4=; b=lQk7FCSFGiGPCRSDv2hqIQv629HF08hutMONhN3AFCr53wl/HUPHIz26XFwkaHOLniAYECMLI/CvE9pxY6Bx3v+Cz/AhDrpmPfbt+YCb6TjZxCG4mSJNsLbc84SnZ0GYT8kwtqAWUa+YGpPOtKuNjk4CBCBYRt9fDzKHeUiZ+1o= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition; b=E/AyIsDBpmkLCMG6NMYXq5jUA7z5rm4Xqc7RN1HGh8DiRh4mfT9/KpyZ/kxWp6TP2GChBagcXsqMZnP2nlmeXKMh6DjEtfA/iB92durTwcujvaeh4JnOtwefVez6io8gO84km08drpDUeKZGO3fwIWySQj7EwAfEcjdlbP7M2I8= Received: by 10.143.17.13 with SMTP id u13mr2095725wfi.69.1201511131948; Mon, 28 Jan 2008 01:05:31 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.143.196.10 with HTTP; Mon, 28 Jan 2008 01:05:31 -0800 (PST) Content-Disposition: inline Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Hi all, I have a big patch that affects a single file that needs to be split in a few logical patches. I know ho to do the opposite process, rebase -i and squash is something I'm really used to do but this time that trick is not going to help me. What is the preferred way to split a big patch in a series of smaller patches? Thanks. Ciao, -- Paolo http://paolo.ciarrocchi.googlepages.com/