On Thu, 5 Oct 2006, Andrew Morton wrote:
>
> Linus, what's the best way of doing this? Will git dtrt with a patch which
> copies files, or would a script which does the mkdir's and cp's be better?
Git should dtrt.
In fact, if you use
git diff -C
it should generate the appropriate "file copied" things automatically, and
you don't need any huge file at all, you'll get a "patch" that looks
something like
diff --git a/fs/ext3/inode.c b/fs/ext4/inode.c
similarity index 100%
copy from fs/ext3/inode.c
copy to fs/ext4/inode.c
diff --git a/fs/ext3/super.c b/fs/ext4/super.c
similarity index 98%
copy from fs/ext3/super.c
copy to fs/ext4/super.c
index xyz..zzy 100644
--- a/fs/ext3/super.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/super.c
.. small diff that changes "ext3" to "ext4" goes here ..
ie you'll effectively get the best of both worlds: a "diff", but one that
is actually readable and shows what is going on.
I hate to beat my own drum (not really), but git really _is_ a lot better
than anything else out there ;)
Linus
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