From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: using git-blame with patches as input
Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2008 14:45:59 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7vej6x9hpk.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080616213517.GE20727@redhat.com> (Don Zickus's message of "Mon, 16 Jun 2008 17:35:17 -0400")
Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com> writes:
> I deal with a lot of backported patches that are a combination of multiple
> commits. I was looking to develop a tool that would help me determine
> which chunks of the patch are upstream (not necessarily currently in HEAD
> but at some point in the file's history).
>
> For example, if I took the top three commits from HEAD and appended them
> into one patch file and then ran this tool with the patch as input, I
> would hope that it gave as output the three original commits.
A quick and dirty hack would be to:
rm .git/index
sed -ne 's/^[+ ]//p' -e '/^@@/p' patches... >file
git add file
git commit -m 'only "a file" remains'
git blame -C -C -w file
which would try blaming all the postimage concatenated together ;-)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-06-16 21:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-06-16 21:35 using git-blame with patches as input Don Zickus
2008-06-16 21:45 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2008-06-17 14:15 ` Don Zickus
2008-06-16 21:54 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-06-16 22:08 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-06-17 14:17 ` Don Zickus
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