Re: [PATCH] Add --no-rename to git-apply

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Sep 27, 2007, 10:24 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0709271107530.28395@racer.site>
In-Reply-To: <7vbqbozo7t.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>

Hi,

On Wed, 26 Sep 2007, Junio C Hamano wrote:

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> Robin Rosenberg <robin.rosenberg@dewire.com> writes:
> 
> > With this option git-apply can apply a patch with a rename
> > onto the original file(s).
> 
> This is troubling from both design and implementation point of
> view.
> 
>  * Why would this be useful?  What's the point of producing the
>    renaming patch if you know you would want to apply while
>    ignoring the rename?

Robin said in a follow-up mail that he needs it for a payed-for SCM (let's describe it as TransparentBox here), which insists on explicit renames.

But I suggest a simple script here which extracts from the diff the renames, which outputs a script which renames the file(s) back and then uses the TransparentBox' mv command:

sed -n -e "/^rename from/N" \
  -e "s/^rename from \(.*\)\nrename to \(.*\)/mv \2 \1 \&\& tb mv \1 \2/p" \
  < diff.patch

Ciao, Dscho