Re: GNU patch: new 2.6 release

["Björn Gustavsson" <bgustavsson@gmail.com>]

2009/11/14 Andreas Gruenbacher <agruen@suse.de>:
> Support for git's extended header lines for renames, copies, hashes, file
> modes would be great. I'll happily take patches or eventually implement it
> myself. Binary patches are not as high on my wish list, but feel free to send
> code.

Support for the other extended header lines would be useful for me too.
I might have a go at implementing them (and binary patches) at some
point in the future.

>> That would be very useful in a workflow when you work in git (and have some
>> binary files in the repository), but need to commit your finished work
>> into another VCS (such as Clearcase).
>
> Isn't there a better way to do this than with patches?

If there is a better way, I would be very interested in finding out what it is.

Feeding the output from 'git format-patch' to patch is the
best way I've had come up with yet. patch (given the '-g 1' option)
will automatically check out the files that are to be patched.
I have wrapped that in a simple script that retrieves the commit
comment from the patch and check in the files with that commit
comment.

/Björn

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Björn Gustavsson, Erlang/OTP, Ericsson AB