Re: [StGit PATCH] add option to import series directly from a tar archive

From: Karl Hasselström <kha@treskal.com>
Date: Sep 12, 2008, 13:07 UTC
Message-ID: <20080912130703.GA31240@diana.vm.bytemark.co.uk>
In-Reply-To: <2008-09-12-14-21-13+trackit+sam@rfc1149.net>

On 2008-09-12 14:21:13 +0200, Samuel Tardieu wrote:

> Two things that would be great would be:
>
>   - to be able to import patches with "-p0" (people not using git
>     often sends such patches)

This should be trivial to implement, since git-apply (pardon the dash) has a -p flag with precisely this meaning.

>   - to be able to find where the patch should be applied; I
>     sometimes receive patches for GCC directory "gcc/ada/", diffed
>     from there, and if StGit could see that the patch only makes
>     sense there and not at the top-level it would be great as well

I don't believe git-apply can do this (please correct me if I'm wrong), and the right way to teach StGit to do it would arguably be to teach it to git-apply and then make StGit use it. It'd be _possible_ to do it directly in StGit, but it wouldn't be quite the right level, and git users wouldn't benefit.

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