Re: RFS: commit-patch

2010-04-03 Thread Christoph Egger
On Sat, Mar 20, 2010 at 09:03:45PM -0700, David Caldwell wrote: > I am looking for a sponsor for my package "commit-patch". Oh sorry, I wanted to give it a look and it totally dropped out of my head. I'll send you a review / upload it really soon now (hopefully, if not feel free to ping me

Re: RFS: commit-patch

2010-03-22 Thread David Caldwell
> David Caldwell writes: > > > Here's a blog post about a possible use case, written a few years ago: > > > > > > Okay. The author of that post acknowledges: > > Checking in patches effectively means checking in untested code. >

Re: RFS: commit-patch

2010-03-22 Thread Ben Finney
David Caldwell writes: > Here's a blog post about a possible use case, written a few years ago: > > Okay. The author of that post acknowledges: Checking in patches effectively means checking in untested code. That's my main pro

Re: RFS: commit-patch

2010-03-22 Thread Ben Finney
David Caldwell writes: > Ben Finney wrote: > > > Why does 'commit-patch' not affect the working tree? How is the > > revision related to others, then? > > The revision is potentially not related to the state of your working > tree at all. Most likely, though, the patch is a minor tweak on your >

Re: RFS: commit-patch

2010-03-22 Thread David Caldwell
Ben Finney wrote: > David Caldwell writes: > > > Interesting. 'bzr patch' doesn't seem to be documented in my bzr, > > but it appears to apply the patch to the working directory instead of > > committing it. This is not what commit-patch does--it commits the > > patch to the repository and leav

Re: RFS: commit-patch

2010-03-21 Thread Ben Finney
David Caldwell writes: > Interesting. [‘bzr patch’] doesn't seem to be documented in my bzr, > but it appears to apply the patch to the working directory instead of > committing it. This is not what commit-patch does--it commits the > patch to the repository and leaves your working directory as i

Re: RFS: commit-patch

2010-03-21 Thread David Caldwell
> >The Motivation part sounds a bit like what git commit -p does > > (bazaar has something similar) Internally commit-patch uses "git apply --cached" when working with git. I don't seem to have the '-p' option in the version of git I have installed. > Yes, 'bzr patch foo.patch' will a

Re: RFS: commit-patch

2010-03-21 Thread Ben Finney
Christoph Egger writes: > The Motivation part sounds a bit like what git commit -p does > (bazaar has something similar) Yes, ‘bzr patch foo.patch’ will apply the changes from a patch file, optionally stripping some specified number of directory levels from the file paths to be patched. -

Re: RFS: commit-patch

2010-03-21 Thread Christoph Egger
Hi! On Sat, Mar 20, 2010 at 09:03:45PM -0700, David Caldwell wrote: > * Package name: commit-patch > Version : 2.3-1 > Upstream Author : David Caldwell > * URL : http://porkrind.org/commit-patch/ > * License : GPLv2 > Section : vcs > > It builds these b

RFS: commit-patch

2010-03-20 Thread David Caldwell
Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package "commit-patch". * Package name: commit-patch Version : 2.3-1 Upstream Author : David Caldwell * URL : http://porkrind.org/commit-patch/ * License : GPLv2 Section : vcs It builds these binary pack