Re: [PATCH] Add --no-rename to git-apply

From: Robin Rosenberg <robin.rosenberg@dewire.com>
Date: Sep 27, 2007, 19:04 UTC
Message-ID: <200709272104.18510.robin.rosenberg@dewire.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0709271107530.28395@racer.site>

torsdag 27 september 2007 skrev Johannes Schindelin:

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> Robin said in a follow-up mail that he needs it for a payed-for SCM 
> (let's describe it as TransparentBox here), which insists on explicit 
> renames.
> 
> But I suggest a simple script here which extracts from the diff the 
> renames, which outputs a script which renames the file(s) back and then 
> uses the TransparentBox' mv command:
> 
> sed -n -e "/^rename from/N" \
>   -e "s/^rename from \(.*\)\nrename to \(.*\)/mv \2 \1 \&\& tb mv \1 \2/p" \
>   < diff.patch
>

I tried something like that (integrated in the script), and the bugger noticed it and refused to work as exepected, but now that I think about it should be possible to fool it. I have to give it a go again and see what really actually went wrong.

-- robin