From: Petr Baudis Date: Tue, 02 May 2006 22:34:38 GMT Subject: Re: cg-mkpatch use case 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 said that... > On 5/3/06, Petr Baudis 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. ;-) -- Petr "Pasky" Baudis Stuff: http://pasky.or.cz/ Right now I am having amnesia and deja-vu at the same time. I think I have forgotten this before.