From: Matthias Urlichs <smurf@smurf.noris.de>
Date: Fri, 17 Jun 2005 11:57:28 GMT
Subject: Re: Using local trees and cogito
Message-ID: <pan.2005.06.17.11.57.23.864424@smurf.noris.de>
In-Reply-To: <20050616163907.GA26037@delft.aura.cs.cmu.edu>

Hi, Jan Harkes wrote:

> I use,
> 
>     git-diff-cache -R -p HEAD | git-apply --index
> 
> This simple reverse applies the differences between the previously
> checked out tree and the branch we just switched to. Ofcourse the
> cache/index has to be up to date before we switch between branches.

... except that this method fails to create intermediate dirctories.

fatal: unable to create file drivers/media/dvb/dibusb/Kconfig (No such file or directory)

Looks like a bug in git-apply.

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