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Re: Does GIT has vc keywords like CVS/Subversion?

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Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date
Oct 10, 2006, 17:41 UTC
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Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> writes:
> Well, it probably wouldn't be too nasty to try to have a "find nearest 
> commit" kind of thing. It's not quite as simple as bisection, but you 
> could probably use a bisection-like algorithm to do something like a 
> binary search to try to guess which tree is the closest.

I had to do something like that in my day job once. A customer installation was made from a tarball of unknown vintage, and then field patched with later fixes.

I ended up slurping the thing back and populated my index with it. Luckily I could guess a good initial point to find the commit that gives minimum "git diff" output. Then from the remaining patches it was reasonably easy to find out which changes were cherry-picked by hand with "git log master -- $paths".

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  1. Dongsheng SongOct 9, 2006
  2. Liu YubaoOct 9, 2006
  3. Petr BaudisOct 9, 2006
  4. Linus TorvaldsOct 9, 2006
  5. Martin LanghoffOct 9, 2006
  6. Johannes SchindelinOct 9, 2006
  7. Martin LanghoffOct 9, 2006
  8. Junio C HamanoOct 9, 2006
  9. Rene ScharfeOct 10, 2006
  10. Shawn PearceOct 10, 2006
  11. Linus TorvaldsOct 10, 2006
  12. Junio C HamanoOct 10, 2006

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