From: Robin Rosenberg <robin.rosenberg@dewire.com>
Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2006 06:49:04 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Rework cvsexportcommit to handle binary files for all cases.
Message-ID: <200611140749.05023.robin.rosenberg@dewire.com>
In-Reply-To: <7vveli4zxc.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

tisdag 14 november 2006 01:47 skrev Junio C Hamano:
>Robin Rosenberg wrote:
>> I sent a patch earlier, which was not applied, due to imperfections that I 
>> cannot solve fully. One issue was that patch 2.5.9 was required and hacking 
>> it to handle binary diffs with spaces would require and even worse kludge,
>
>I suspect that we should not be using patch, but instead be
>using git-apply perhaps with -C option if people want fuzz.

Does git-apply work without a git repo? We're applying patches onto a CVS 
repo.

>[...]
> I know this script originally came from southern hemisphere, but
> I was talking about _western_ hemisphere.  The comment refers to
> the part of the code the attached patch fixes, which I will
> apply along with your updated patch.
Western/nothern, both apply to where I live.

>[...]
>I think scripts that work with git
> plumbing should read from -z output when they need to and are
> capable of, as we have done for git-cvsserver recently, and
> things written in Perl certainly are capable of doing so.
I'll investgate that.