Re: GNU patch: new 2.6 release

2009/11/14 Andreas Gruenbacher [off-list ref]:

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.

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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