From: Björn Gustavsson Date: Sun, 15 Nov 2009 14:02:20 GMT Subject: Re: GNU patch: new 2.6 release Message-ID: <6672d0160911150602r450ae91fl34f533a39e61ed7@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <200911151437.56228.trast@student.ethz.ch> 2009/11/15 Thomas Rast : > Björn Gustavsson wrote: >> That would be very useful in a workflow when you work in git (and have some >> binary files in the repository), but need to commit your finished work >> into another VCS (such as Clearcase). > > You can simply use git-apply in this case, it also works outside a git > repository. Thanks, I didn't know that. I just assumed that it used the index or generally depended on being run in a git repository. The patch program does one thing that git-apply does not -- it can check out the files to be patched (for systems that need it, such as Clearcase or RCS). I will have to handle that myself (but that is not hard, I can either use 'git diff --name-only' to find out the file names or extract the names from the patch itself). /Björn -- Björn Gustavsson, Erlang/OTP, Ericsson AB