Re: Using git for patch management in Fedora

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On 11/19/2013 10:55 AM, Mathieu Bridon wrote:
> On Tue, 2013-11-19 at 10:32 +0000, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
>> On Tue, Nov 19, 2013 at 06:28:47PM +0800, Mathieu Bridon wrote:
>>> Or maybe we could start using %autosetup ?
>>>
>>>   http://www.rpm.org/wiki/PackagerDocs/Autosetup
>>
>> '%autosetup -S git' for sure, not plain %autosetup.
>>
>> Git correctly handles file modes and binary patches (not that binary
>> patches should be much of a concern here, but file modes definitely
>> are).

BTW patch 2.7 does support file mode changes:
http://savannah.gnu.org/forum/forum.php?forum_id=7361

Binary patches are not yet supported but they are quite useful
and I've hit that with patches adding new png files for example.

On the topic of new files, `%autosetup -S git` currently doesn't handle those:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1059285

cheers,
Pádraig.
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