cg-mkpatch use case

Hello,

I have 3 questions about cg-mkpatch

1. I've receive a file "xxx.patch", this content came from
   cg-mkpatch, but I can't apply it.
   For example if I try git-am I get::

     $ git-am --signoff xxx.patch
     Patch does not have a valid e-mail address.

   What is the Cogito way to apply the result of "cg-mkpatch"

2. What are the difference between usecases with "cg-mkpatch"
   and "git-format-patch" ?

3. It seem that if a commit as a binary file they are no way to manage
   it by email patches. Any plan about this in Cogito ?

On 5/2/06, Belmar-Letelier <luis@itaapy.com> wrote:

AFAIK, cg-patch. However, cg-mkpatch appeared before cg-patch, so you may have a version of Cogito without cg-patch.

If you are familiar with git tools, use them instead of cg tools ;-)

Cg is simpler, so if you have relatively simple needs, or a team with simple needs that doesn't need to know all the git tricks and internals, it can be a timesaver. In my team, people start with Cg and eventually evolve into using more and more of git.

cheers,

martin

  Hi,

Dear diary, on Tue, May 02, 2006 at 09:47:26AM CEST, I got a letter where Belmar-Letelier <luis@itaapy.com> said that...

  cg-mkpatch is a very old tool which has been long neglected and
not many people actually use it nowadays, I believe. You can apply it
back using cg-patch (or even patch itself, or git-apply if you are
lucky), but it won't automagically extract the commit message and
authorship information.

  git-format-patch outputs stuff in the mailbox format while cg-mkpatch
outputs it in a more "human readable" (well, but quite historical)
format, but really, you probably want to use git-format-patch in almost
every case. In the (probably relatively near) future, cg-mkpatch might
become merely a git-format-patch wrapper.

  Not any clear plans. I will welcome patches but it is not high
priority for me currently.

On 5/3/06, Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz> wrote:

Erm... I don't personally use it, but cg-patch --long-help tells me...

-c::
        Automatically extract the commit message and authorship information
        (if provided) from the patch and commit it after applying it
        successfuly.

Truth in advertising? ;-)

cheers,

martin

Dear diary, on Wed, May 03, 2006 at 12:19:00AM CEST, I got a letter where Martin Langhoff <martin.langhoff@gmail.com> said that...

Uhm, no, it just didn't stick in my mind in the storm of cg-patch improvements. :-) Oops.

So, YES, there IS a way to apply cg-mkpatches preserving autorship and everything - cg-patch -c. Sorry for the confusion. ;-)