Re: cg-mkpatch use case

From

Martin Langhoff <martin.langhoff@gmail.com>

Date

May 2, 2006, 22:19 UTC

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<46a038f90605021519x5ee680b0v78dd5c092e1b191f@mail.gmail.com>

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<20060502215703.GK27689@pasky.or.cz>

On 5/3/06, Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz> wrote:

> not many people actually use it nowadays, I believe. You can apply it
> back using cg-patch (or even patch itself, or git-apply if you are
> lucky), but it won't automagically extract the commit message and
> authorship information.

Erm... I don't personally use it, but cg-patch --long-help tells me...

-c::
        Automatically extract the commit message and authorship information
        (if provided) from the patch and commit it after applying it
        successfuly.

Truth in advertising? ;-)

cheers,

martin