Re: [RFC] Patches exchange is bad?

From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Aug 16, 2005, 21:02 UTC
Message-ID: <7vzmrh8uis.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <20050816200132.88287.qmail@web26304.mail.ukl.yahoo.com>

Marco Costalba <mcostalba@yahoo.it> writes:

> It is just a very thin layer above the two git scripts, the only extra work 
> is the cleaning up of some info that git-format-patch-script automatically adds, 
> so that the new commits look like the originals (i.e. same header and description).

> What do you think?

All good. The existing tools are designed to work well in the following workflow:

    $ git format-patch --mbox master..pu
    $ cat 000[234]-*.txt >to-apply
    $ git checkout master
    $ git applymbox to-apply
    $ mv .git/refs/heads/pu .git/refs/heads/old-pu
    $ git checkout -b pu master
    $ git applymbox 0001-*.txt

to advance "master" with selected commits, possibly reordered, from the "pu" branch, and rebase the "pu" branch using the remaining commits.

I would like to know a bit about "git format-patch" adding extra info that you needed to get rid of. It shouldn't be necessary.