From: Marc Singer <elf@synapse.com>
Date: Wed, 06 Jun 2007 17:37:34 GMT
Subject: Let me ask again: How do we import patches from non-git sources?
Message-ID: <1181151454.6086.23.camel@zealous.synapsedev.com>
In-Reply-To: <1180017010.21181.2.camel@zealous.synapsedev.com>

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