Re: [PATCH] Add --no-rename to git-apply

[Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>]

Hi,

On Wed, 26 Sep 2007, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> Robin Rosenberg <robin.rosenberg@dewire.com> writes:
> 
> > With this option git-apply can apply a patch with a rename
> > onto the original file(s).
> 
> This is troubling from both design and implementation point of
> view.
> 
>  * Why would this be useful?  What's the point of producing the
>    renaming patch if you know you would want to apply while
>    ignoring the rename?

Robin said in a follow-up mail that he needs it for a payed-for SCM 
(let's describe it as TransparentBox here), which insists on explicit 
renames.

But I suggest a simple script here which extracts from the diff the 
renames, which outputs a script which renames the file(s) back and then 
uses the TransparentBox' mv command:

sed -n -e "/^rename from/N" \
  -e "s/^rename from \(.*\)\nrename to \(.*\)/mv \2 \1 \&\& tb mv \1 \2/p" \
  < diff.patch

Ciao,
Dscho