From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 2009 21:54:20 GMT
Subject: Re: Generating patches/Cherry Picking for a large number of commits
Message-ID: <20090828215420.GA18336@coredump.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <ae09c2a40908281250r42275a3o96825b89e725bace@mail.gmail.com>

On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 02:50:53PM -0500, Alydis wrote:

> While I have your attention, however, I noticed that git am <path>
> will apply the list patches generated by format-patch.  The
> documentation said something about mbox/maildir directories, which I
> actually am not that familiar with.  Is it safe to say that git am
> <path> will read the path and apply patches in numerical order?  Does
> it allow skipping?

It will apply the patches in the order given on the command line. When
your shell expands the "patches/*" glob, it will do so in lexically
sorted order. Meaning "0001" comes before "0002", etc, which is the
reason that format-patch zero-pads the filenames.

You can edit or delete the patches in your patch directory before
applying, and they should apply the same (unless you create a patch that
cannot actually be applied).

-Peff