From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2006 23:20:39 GMT
Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] pg - A patch porcelain for GIT
Message-ID: <20060210232039.GC21468@kroah.com>
In-Reply-To: <20060210210401.GA1604@spearce.org>

On Fri, Feb 10, 2006 at 04:04:01PM -0500, Shawn Pearce wrote:
> Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> wrote:
> > On Fri, Feb 10, 2006 at 02:59:14PM -0500, Shawn Pearce wrote:
> > > I just posted the first public version of pg, a GIT porcelain for
> > > managing patches.  Think StGIT, but better in some ways:
> > > 
> > > Feature Summary:
> > 
> > Hm, is there any way to import an existing patch into pg?
> 
> Doh!  I haven't needed to do that yet.  I'll code up a pg-import
> later tonight.  But since git and pg play nice together you can
> do this:
> 
> 	pg-new Patch-Name
> 	git-apply the-patch-file.patch
> 	pg-ci -m"Importing the-patch-file.patch..."
> 
> or even:
> 
> 	pg-new Patch-Name
> 	git-am mbox

well, as my quilt tree is around 200 patches right now, that would be
annoying to have to do by hand :)

thanks,

greg k-h