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[PATCH] Implement git-quiltimport

From
Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Date
May 16, 2006, 16:51 UTC
Message-ID
<m1k68l6hga.fsf@ebiederm.dsl.xmission.com>

Importing a quilt patch series into git is not very difficult but parsing the patch descriptions and all of the other minutia take a bit of effort to get right, so this automates it.

Since git and quilt complement each other it makes sense to make it easy to go back and forth between the two.

---
Eric
 Documentation/git-quiltimport.txt |   50 +++++++++++++++++++++
 Makefile                          |    2 -
 git-quiltimport.sh                |   88 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 3 files changed, 139 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 Documentation/git-quiltimport.txt
 create mode 100644 git-quiltimport.sh
2256c7e9b3913732a5c3a2e54cdea20fc951b76d
diff --git a/Documentation/git-quiltimport.txt b/Documentation/git-quiltimport.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..8ea20eb
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/git-quiltimport.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,50 @@
+git-quiltimport(1)
+================
+
+NAME
+----
+git-quiltimport - Applies a quilt patchset onto the current branch
+
+
+SYNOPSIS
+--------
+[verse]
+'git-quiltimport' [--author <author>] [--patches <dir>]
+
+
+DESCRIPTION
+-----------
+Applies a quilt patchset onto the current git branch, preserving
+the patch boundaries, patch order, and patch descriptions present
+in the quilt patchset.
+
+For each patch the code attempts to extract the author from the 
+patch description.  If that fails it falls back to the author
+specified with --author.  If the --author flag was not given
+the the author is recorded as unknown.
+
+The patch name is preserved as the 1 line subject in the git
+description.
+
+OPTIONS
+-------
+--author Author Name <Author Email>::
+	The author name and email address to use when no author
+	information can be found in the patch description.
+
+--patches <dir>::
+	The directory to find the quilt patches and the
+	quilt series file.
+
+Author
+------
+Written by Eric Biederman <ebiederm@lnxi.com>
+
+Documentation
+--------------
+Documentation by Eric Biederman <ebiederm@lnxi.com>
+
+GIT
+---
+Part of the gitlink:git[7] suite
+
diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 37fbe78..1f4abe6 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -125,7 +125,7 @@ SCRIPT_SH = \
 	git-applymbox.sh git-applypatch.sh git-am.sh \
 	git-merge.sh git-merge-stupid.sh git-merge-octopus.sh \
 	git-merge-resolve.sh git-merge-ours.sh git-grep.sh \
-	git-lost-found.sh
+	git-lost-found.sh git-quiltimport.sh
 
 SCRIPT_PERL = \
 	git-archimport.perl git-cvsimport.perl git-relink.perl \
diff --git a/git-quiltimport.sh b/git-quiltimport.sh
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..534be82
--- /dev/null
+++ b/git-quiltimport.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,88 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+USAGE='--author <author> --patches </path/to/quilt/patch/directory>'
+SUBDIRECTORY_ON=Yes
+. git-sh-setup
+
+quilt_author="Unknown <unknown>"
+while case "$#" in 0) break;; esac
+do
+	case "$1" in
+	--au=*|--aut=*|--auth=*|--autho=*|--author=*)
+		quilt_author=$(expr "$1" : '-[^=]*\(.*\)')
+		shift
+		;;
+	
+	--au|--aut|--auth|--autho|--author)
+		case "$#" in 1) usage ;; esac
+		shift
+		quilt_author="$1"
+		shift
+		;;
+
+	--pa=*|--pat=*|--patc=*|--patch=*|--patche=*|--patches=*)
+		QUILT_PATCHES=$(expr "$1" : '-[^=]*\(.*\)')
+		shift
+		;;
+	
+	--pa|--pat|--patc|--patch|--patche|--patches)
+		case "$#" in 1) usage ;; esac
+		shift
+		QUILT_PATCHES="$1"
+		shift
+		;;
+	
+	*)
+		break
+		;;
+	esac
+done
+
+# Quilt Author
+quilt_author_name=$(expr "z$quilt_author" : 'z\(.*[^ ]\) *<.*') &&
+quilt_author_email=$(expr "z$quilt_author" : '.*\(<.*\)') &&
+test '' != "$quilt_author_name" &&
+test '' != "$quilt_author_email" ||
+die "malformatted --author parameter"
+
+# Quilt patch directory
+: ${QUILT_PATCHES:=patches}
+if ! [ -d "$QUILT_PATCHES" ] ; then
+	echo "The \"$QUILT_PATCHES\" directory does not exist."
+	exit 1
+fi
+
+# Temporay directories
+tmp_dir=.dotest
+tmp_msg="$tmp_dir/msg"
+tmp_patch="$tmp_dir/patch"
+tmp_info="$tmp_dir/info"
+
+
+# Find the intial commit
+commit=$(git-rev-parse HEAD)
+
+mkdir $tmp_dir || exit 2
+cat "$QUILT_PATCHES/series" | grep -v '^#' | 
+while read line ; do 
+	echo $line
+	(cat $QUILT_PATCHES/$line | git-mailinfo "$tmp_msg" "$tmp_patch" > "$tmp_info") || exit 3
+	
+	# Parse the author information
+	export GIT_AUTHOR_NAME=$(sed -ne 's/Author: //p' "$tmp_info")
+	export GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL=$(sed -ne 's/Email: //p' "$tmp_info")
+	if [ -z "$GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL" ] ; then
+		GIT_AUTHOR_NAME=$quilt_author_name
+		GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL=$quilt_author_email
+	fi
+	export GIT_AUTHOR_DATE=$(sed -ne 's/Date: //p' "$tmp_info")
+	export SUBJECT=$(sed -ne 's/Subject: //p' "$tmp_info")
+	if [ -z "$SUBJECT" ] ; then
+		SUBJECT=$(echo $line | sed -e 's/.patch$//')
+	fi
+
+	git-apply --index -C1 "$tmp_patch" &&
+	tree=$(git-write-tree) &&
+	commit=$((echo "$SUBJECT"; echo; cat "$tmp_msg") | git-commit-tree $tree -p $commit) &&
+	git-update-ref HEAD $commit || exit 4
+done
+rm -rf $tmp_dir || exit 5
-- 
1.3.2.g2256
Next: Linus Torvalds
Message 1 of 24 in “Implement git-quiltimport”
  1. Implement git-quiltimportEric W. Biederman, May 16, 2006
  2. Linus TorvaldsMay 16, 2006
  3. Eric W. BiedermanMay 16, 2006
  4. Junio C HamanoMay 16, 2006
  5. Eric W. BiedermanMay 17, 2006
  6. Junio C HamanoMay 17, 2006
  7. Implement git-quiltimport (take 2)Eric W. Biederman, May 17, 2006
  8. Junio C HamanoMay 17, 2006
  9. Eric W. BiedermanMay 17, 2006
  10. Junio C HamanoMay 17, 2006
  11. Eric W. BiedermanMay 18, 2006
  12. Greg KHMay 19, 2006
  13. Eric W. BiedermanMay 20, 2006
  14. Greg KHMay 20, 2006
  15. Eric W. BiedermanMay 21, 2006
  16. Junio C HamanoMay 21, 2006
  17. Eric W. BiedermanMay 21, 2006
  18. Junio C HamanoMay 21, 2006
  19. Eric W. BiedermanMay 21, 2006
  20. Greg KHJun 1, 2006
  21. Eric W. BiedermanJun 2, 2006
  22. Eric W. BiedermanMay 19, 2006
  23. Implement a --dry-run option to git-quiltimportEric W. Biederman, May 17, 2006
  24. Linus TorvaldsMay 17, 2006

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