Re: format-patch: numbered patches from a patch list?

From: tom fogal <tfogal@alumni.unh.edu>
Date: Jul 22, 2009, 02:47 UTC
Message-ID: <auto-000020035969@sci.utah.edu>
In-Reply-To: <auto-000020035874@sci.utah.edu>

Answering my own question.

tom fogal <tfogal@alumni.unh.edu> writes:

> I have a need to generate a numbered sequence of patches from
> a sparse sprinkling of patches on a branch.  Is there a way to
> accomplish this?

Yep.  Duh.

Just generate the patches as I did in my my first mail. Then use mtime.sh:

    #!/bin/sh

    for patch in $@ ; do
      commitdate=$(head -n 5 ${patch} | \
                   grep "^Date" | \
                   cut -d: -f 2-)
      touch -d "${commitdate}" ${patch}
      shortfn=$(echo "${patch}" | cut -b 1-30)
      echo "Changed ${shortfn} to ${commitdate}"
    done

to change the modification time of every patch I care about. Now I can list the files by modification time, achieving exactly what I want.

I really love a full posix environment sometimes.

Sorry for the noise,

-tom