Re: Let me ask again: How do we import patches from non-git sources?

Marc Singer [off-list ref] writes:

On Thu, 2007-05-24 at 07:30 -0700, Marc Singer wrote:

quoted

It looks like it reduces to something very simple.

Git patches, as generated by git-format-patch, have a header with an
email address.

Cogito patches, as generated by cg-mkpatch, have no email address in the
header.

Cogito is more or less depreceted now. You should probably use git
itself.

quoted

git-am doesn't like the cogito patches.

Is there a way to import patches that did not come from git?  Remember
that we'd like to include the functionality of git-am that adds new
files to the index.

Cheers.

I have patches from another source as well and I'd like to be able to
import them even though these aren't from git.

You cannot "import" them, because they do not contain the necessary
information (commit message and email adress). But you can "apply"
them, and then commit manually. Use git-patch (even just "patch" could
do) to apply the patch, and commit as usual.

-- 
Matthieu

On Wed, 2007-06-06 at 12:58, Matthieu Moy wrote:

Cogito is more or less depreceted now. You should probably use git
itself.

Hmm.  We should then likely try to encourage kernel.org and denx.de
folks to advertise cloning their published repos with git rather
than cogito now.

jdl

On Wed, 2007-06-06 at 13:18 -0500, Jon Loeliger wrote:

On Wed, 2007-06-06 at 12:58, Matthieu Moy wrote:

quoted

Cogito is more or less depreceted now. You should probably use git
itself.

Hmm.  We should then likely try to encourage kernel.org and denx.de
folks to advertise cloning their published repos with git rather
than cogito now.

It's also users who are *just* getting their feet wet in the git pool.