[bug-patch] Re: GNU patch: new 2.6 release

[Björn Gustavsson]

2009/11/15 Thomas Rast <address@hidden>:
> Björn Gustavsson wrote:
>> That would be very useful in a workflow when you work in git (and have some
>> binary files in the repository), but need to commit your finished work
>> into another VCS (such as Clearcase).
>
> You can simply use git-apply in this case, it also works outside a git
> repository.

Thanks, I didn't know that. I just assumed that it used the index
or generally depended on being run in a git repository.

The patch program does one thing that git-apply does not --
it can check out the files to be patched (for systems that need
it, such as Clearcase or RCS). I will have to handle that myself
(but that is not hard, I can either use 'git diff --name-only' to find
out the file names or extract the names from the patch itself).

/Björn
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Björn Gustavsson, Erlang/OTP, Ericsson AB