Messages in this thread | | | From | Andreas Gruenbacher <> | Subject | Re: patch(1) and git -M output (Re: [PATCH 2/2] FRV: Move to arch/frv/include/asm/) | Date | Fri, 10 Apr 2009 00:06:54 +0200 |
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On Thursday, 9 April 2009 20:28:03 Al Viro wrote: > On Thu, Apr 09, 2009 at 07:13:29PM +0100, Al Viro wrote: > > We can teach patch(1) to handle those - apparently agruen has resurrected > > development lately (git://git.savannah.gnu.org/patch.git), so it might > > be possible without usual latency problems... > > From the quick look it appears that src/pch.c::intuit_diff_type() is the > place where it could be done, with inname and outfile set according to > rename from/rename to lines. Might need some flag to make the damn thing > reset outfile when we are done with this one; hopefully, the next call > of intuit_diff_type() wouldn't be too late for that, but that's just from > a very cursory reading of the code. > > Andreas, do you have anything of that kind queued?
I've flushed my queue over the last weeks; nothing significant is pending right now. At the moment I'm trying to stabilize patch for the next stable release, which is supposed to happen in about a month's time. Anything major would go into the release after that.
> If not, I'll probably take a stab at that (handling git -M output, that is).
Patches are welcome. (I hope you won't mind the GNU copyright assignment / disclaimer paperwork.)
Thanks, Andreas
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