From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2005 03:57:49 GMT
Subject: Re: Should cg-mkpatch output be usable with cg-patch?
Message-ID: <7vackgerpe.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <20050720234904.B3ED735267C@atlas.denx.de>

Wolfgang Denk <wd@denx.de> writes:

> I wander what I should do with "cg-mkpatch" generated output;  I  had
> the  impression that this should be usable with "cg-patch", but these
> are incompatible with each other. Forexample. if  a  commit  contains
> permission changes, my generated patch may look like this:

Yes, cg-patch does grok git extended diff headers, but does it
by hand and missing corner cases like this is understandable.

I only briefly looked at cg-patch, but I suspect that it can
lose 90% lines of its code by just using "git-apply --index".

I see cg-patch wants to be able to do reverse patch, which is
not supported by git-apply currently.

Do people find "cg-patch -R" useful?