Re: GNU patch: new 2.6 release

2009/11/15 Thomas Rast [off-list ref]:

Björn Gustavsson wrote:

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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).

You can simply use git-apply in this case, it also works outside a git
repository.

Thanks, I didn't know that. I just assumed that it used the index
or generally depended on being run in a git repository.

The patch program does one thing that git-apply does not --
it can check out the files to be patched (for systems that need
it, such as Clearcase or RCS). I will have to handle that myself
(but that is not hard, I can either use 'git diff --name-only' to find
out the file names or extract the names from the patch itself).

/Björn
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Björn Gustavsson, Erlang/OTP, Ericsson AB