Re: Unapplied patches reminder

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Oct 18, 2009, 23:31 UTC
Message-ID: <7v63aci8id.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <20091019052030.6117@nanako3.lavabit.com>

Nanako Shiraishi <nanako3@lavabit.com> writes:

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> Junio, I saw these patches and thought what they try to do were 
> sensible, but I don't them in your tree. I didn't see much discussion 
> on most of them, either.
>
> Because I don't read C very well, I may have listed some patches 
> here that you may have discarded because the code was no good, and 
> if so I apologize for wasting your time, but I thought at least 
> some of them should be salvaged.
> ...
> From:	Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
> Subject: Re: [BUG?] git-cvsimport: path to cvspsfile
> Date:	Wed, 23 Sep 2009 15:14:29 -0400
> Message-ID: <20090923191428.GA30104@coredump.intra.peff.net>
>
>     Bug. The script does a chdir() and then looks at the cvspsfile later. I
>     think "-A" would have the same problem. Here is a totally untested patch
>     to address the issue. Johannes, will this is_absolute_path actually work
>     on Windows? I think The Right Way would be to use
>     File::Spec::file_name_is_absolute, but I haven't checked whether that is
>     part of core perl and if so, which version it appeared in.

My understanding of this is that it is a typical "how about this" that is still waiting for a follow-up discussion that will result in an eventual solution.

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> From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
> Subject: Re: Q: supplying large sets of path to git commands
> Date: Fri, 16 Oct 2009 15:08:07 -0700
> Message-ID: <7vtyxzrnzs.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
>
>     Here is how one might implement it for diff/log family of commands that
>     use "setup_revisions()".
>
>     I didn't test it (of course) beyond running 
>
> 	./git diff --name-only HEAD | ./git diff --stdin-paths --stat -p

Ditto.