Re: patches in context format ?

From: Christian MICHON <christian.michon@gmail.com>
Date: Jan 12, 2009, 09:52 UTC
Message-ID: <46d6db660901120152g31d33bfevcd592ae360252804@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <7vy6xgj2jq.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>

On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 10:28 AM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:

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>> I guess the answer is no, but has anyone on the list been working on
>> this ? is there another way to translate from "context" to "unified"
>> format ?
>
> Not that I know of.
>
> If you want to add support for the copied context format patches to your
> workflow, I think the first step (and easiest one) would be to find an
> external program that lets you convert from the copied context format to
> the unified context format.  Perhaps "interdiff /dev/null copied >unified"
> would suffice (but I haven't tested this).
>

interdiff is exactly what I needed (I used -p and -q switches, plus a substitution for the path).

Thanks for this! I guess there's not really a need to add this now in git-am, since I've seldom seen such context patches.

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