From: Petr Baudis Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2005 07:29:28 GMT Subject: Re: GIT - breaking backward compatibility Message-ID: <20050920072928.GA17621@pasky.or.cz> In-Reply-To: <432F92FC.4000405@didntduck.org> Dear diary, on Tue, Sep 20, 2005 at 06:41:32AM CEST, I got a letter where Brian Gerst told me that... > Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > >On Tue, 20 Sep 2005, Brian Gerst wrote: > > > >>Essentially what I want to do is: > >> > >>git-ls-files --others | xargs git-update-index --add -- > >>git-ls-files --deleted | xargs git-update-index --remove -- > >>git-ls-files --modified | xargs git-update-index -- > >> > >>This will completely resync the index and cache to the working tree > >>state after applying a patch. > > > > > >It will also be extremely inefficient. > > > >If you really have a _patch_, then "git-apply --index" is what you want to > >apply it with. It applies a patch _and_ updates the index as appropriate. > >It's how git-applymbox can apply hundreds of patches in short order. > > > > Linus > > > > That would be great, if git-apply accepted fuzzy patches. I am trying > to apply the -mm series patches, which often are slightly out of date. > Andrew doesn't rebase them until they won't apply at all. cg-patch will process fuzzy patches and update the cache properly. It doesn't handle rename/copy patches yet, though. -- Petr "Pasky" Baudis Stuff: http://pasky.or.cz/ VI has two modes: the one in which it beeps and the one in which it doesn't.