Re: GIT - breaking backward compatibility

From: Brian Gerst <bgerst@didntduck.org>
Date: Sep 20, 2005, 04:41 UTC
Message-ID: <432F92FC.4000405@didntduck.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0509192131260.2553@g5.osdl.org>

Linus Torvalds wrote:

Show 21 quoted lines

> 
> On Tue, 20 Sep 2005, Brian Gerst wrote:
> 
>>Essentially what I want to do is:
>>
>>git-ls-files --others | xargs git-update-index --add --
>>git-ls-files --deleted | xargs git-update-index --remove --
>>git-ls-files --modified | xargs git-update-index --
>>
>>This will completely resync the index and cache to the working tree 
>>state after applying a patch.
> 
> 
> It will also be extremely inefficient.
> 
> If you really have a _patch_, then "git-apply --index" is what you want to 
> apply it with. It applies a patch _and_ updates the index as appropriate. 
> It's how git-applymbox can apply hundreds of patches in short order.
> 
> 		Linus
>

That would be great, if git-apply accepted fuzzy patches. I am trying to apply the -mm series patches, which often are slightly out of date. Andrew doesn't rebase them until they won't apply at all.

--
				Brian Gerst