Re: Let me ask again: How do we import patches from non-git sources?

From: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@fieldses.org>
Date: Jun 6, 2007, 17:54 UTC
Message-ID: <20070606175458.GH12774@fieldses.org>
In-Reply-To: <1181151454.6086.23.camel@zealous.synapsedev.com>

On Wed, Jun 06, 2007 at 10:37:34AM -0700, Marc Singer wrote:

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> On Thu, 2007-05-24 at 07:30 -0700, Marc Singer wrote:
> > It looks like it reduces to something very simple.
> > 
> > Git patches, as generated by git-format-patch, have a header with an
> > email address.
> > 
> > Cogito patches, as generated by cg-mkpatch, have no email address in the
> > header.
> > 
> > git-am doesn't like the cogito patches.
> > 
> > Is there a way to import patches that did not come from git?  Remember
> > that we'd like to include the functionality of git-am that adds new
> > files to the index.
> > 
> > Cheers.
> 
> I have patches from another source as well and I'd like to be able to
> import them even though these aren't from git.

Based on my notes from the last time I needed to feed a bunch of non-mbox, non-git-produced patches into git-am, the hard part was figuring out how it split a file into separate messages; my notes say:

	"Finds lines begining with "From " and ending with "hh:mm:ss
	yyyy".  See builtin-mailsplit code for more details."

Other than that, I think it just needs and From: and Subject: lines to get author and first-line of the commit. the git-am man page has some documentation of this. It could probably use more.

--b.