qt-copy

[Ingmar Vanhassel]

Excerpts from Pau Garcia i Quiles's message of Thu Aug 20 17:30:21 +0200 2009:
> On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 12:28 AM, Olivier Goffart<ogoffart at kde.org> wrote:
> > Le Wednesday 19 August 2009, Pau Garcia i Quiles a écrit :
> >
> >> OK, thanks.
> >>
> >> Now that we are talking about kde-qt.git, I have another question: is
> >> there an easy way (i. e. without diff'ing every branch) to get the
> >> patches kde-qt.git has applied? In qt-copy in svn we have the
> >> "patches" directory, which I used to apply to the commercial version
> >> of Qt at work.
> >> Getting those patches from kde-qt.git it much more
> >> difficult, unless there is some way I don't know of.
> >
> > Does this do what you want?:
> >
> > (assuming your HEAD is the 4.5.2-patched branch (the default in kde-qt))
> >
> > git log -p --no-merges v4.5.2...
> 
> It's almost there but there's a small problem: it outputs everything
> in a single patch. That means if some patch is platform-specific (for
> instance, only for Mac), the whole thing would fail.
> 
> Having individual patches was very useful because I used to do this to
> apply qt-copy/patches to Qt commercial version:
> 
>   svn co svn://anonsvn.kde.org/home/kde/trunk/qt-copy/patches patches-qtcopy
>   for I in /c/path/to/patches-qtcopy/*.diff ; do patch -p0 -t < $I; done
> 
> By using -t to patch, patches which did not apply were skipped. I
> cannot do that now unless I split the output of "git log -p
> --no-merges v4.5.2" on ^"diff --git" or "commit ".
> 
> Is it possible to get the output split as individual patches directly from git ?

git format-patch --output-directory patches-qtcopy v4.5.2..kde-qt/4.5.2-patched

Or replace '--output-directory patches-qtcopy' with '--stdout' and pipe
through 'git am' to batch apply them on another git repository.

> Thanks
> 
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