Re: Re-done kernel archive - real one?

From: Petr Baudis <pasky@ucw.cz>
Date: Apr 18, 2005, 22:33 UTC
Message-ID: <20050418223306.GJ5554@pasky.ji.cz>
In-Reply-To: <20050418231652.C16789@flint.arm.linux.org.uk>

Dear diary, on Tue, Apr 19, 2005 at 12:16:52AM CEST, I got a letter where Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk> told me that...

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> Ok, since the last one was soo successful, and I'm up for more
> punishment, here's another attempt.  The diffstat is rather
> interesting in this one, claiming no changes.  It should look
> like this:
> 
>  arch/arm/lib/bitops.h |   33 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  1 files changed, 33 insertions(+)
> 
> However, it seems that git diff can't handle new files appearing
> yet.

Patches welcome. :^)

Actually it shouldn't be hard. Just for through add-queue/rm-queue and diff it with /dev/null.

> The other interesting thing to note is that patches are generated
> for '-p0' rather than '-p1' application, which is contary to our
> historical requirements.  This is going to confuse people - can
> we make it generate -p1 patches please?

This should be fixed with latest Junio's show-diff changes. I might change it to be identical with gitdiff-do output later though, using tree ID and "uncommitted" as the directories instead of 'a' and 'b'. It will stay -p1 now, though.

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