My best guess would be to work with 4 branches in your local git :

-one would be pulled straight from the official repository.
-one would be a copy of the official repository with the changed names
*but no other change* (and you'd build a script to handle the renames
automatically) (this'd use git merge from the official branch).
-one would have the changed names and your own changes. That's your
primary work branch (this'd use git merge from your renamed branch).
-one would be used to prepare your changes for repo upload and
upstream contribution (this'd use git cherry-pick from your primary
work branch).

JBQ

On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 5:37 PM, Jesse Vincent <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Hiya,
>
> I'm a new G1 owner.  I was pretty bummed out by the state of the built-
> in POP/IMAP client, so I dusted off my JDK to start to set things
> right, but I've hit a bit of a stumbling block.  I've added a few
> features to make the mail app more usable for me. (Specifically, key
> bindings for things like delete in the index view and propagating
> message deletion back to an IMAP server)
>
> The problem is that It appears that I can't remove or replace the
> shipped Email application.
>
> I'd like to use and share my 'improved' mail client. To do that, it
> looks like I'd have to fork it, change the name and so on, so it can
> peacefully co-exist on a production G1.
>
> I'd really like to contribute my changes back to the core android
> platform, but maintaining a renamed fork will make that less-than-fun.
>
> So, what should I do?
>
> -Jesse
>
> >
>

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