Re: Generating patches/Cherry Picking for a large number of commits

[Alydis <alydis@august8.net>]

Ack!  Embarrassing RTFM.

While I have your attention, however, I noticed that git am <path>
will apply the list patches generated by format-patch.  The
documentation said something about mbox/maildir directories, which I
actually am not that familiar with.  Is it safe to say that git am
<path> will read the path and apply patches in numerical order?  Does
it allow skipping?

Thanks again,
Tommy Wang


On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 2:45 PM, Jeff King<peff@peff.net> wrote:
> 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
>