Re: cg-mkpatch use case

From: Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz>
Date: May 2, 2006, 22:34 UTC
Message-ID: <20060502223438.GH27631@pasky.or.cz>
In-Reply-To: <46a038f90605021519x5ee680b0v78dd5c092e1b191f@mail.gmail.com>

Dear diary, on Wed, May 03, 2006 at 12:19:00AM CEST, I got a letter where Martin Langhoff <martin.langhoff@gmail.com> said that...

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> On 5/3/06, Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz> wrote:
> >not many people actually use it nowadays, I believe. You can apply it
> >back using cg-patch (or even patch itself, or git-apply if you are
> >lucky), but it won't automagically extract the commit message and
> >authorship information.
> 
> Erm... I don't personally use it, but cg-patch --long-help tells me...
> 
> -c::
>        Automatically extract the commit message and authorship information
>        (if provided) from the patch and commit it after applying it
>        successfuly.
> 
> Truth in advertising? ;-)

Uhm, no, it just didn't stick in my mind in the storm of cg-patch improvements. :-) Oops.

So, YES, there IS a way to apply cg-mkpatches preserving autorship and everything - cg-patch -c. Sorry for the confusion. ;-)

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