Hi, Dear diary, on Tue, May 02, 2006 at 09:47:26AM CEST, I got a letter where Belmar-Letelier <luis@xxxxxxxxxx> said that... > I have 3 questions about cg-mkpatch > > 1. I've receive a file "xxx.patch", this content came from > cg-mkpatch, but I can't apply it. > For example if I try git-am I get:: > > $ git-am --signoff xxx.patch > Patch does not have a valid e-mail address. > > What is the Cogito way to apply the result of "cg-mkpatch" cg-mkpatch is a very old tool which has been long neglected and not many people actually use it nowadays, I believe. You can apply it back using cg-patch (or even patch itself, or git-apply if you are lucky), but it won't automagically extract the commit message and authorship information. > 2. What are the difference between usecases with "cg-mkpatch" > and "git-format-patch" ? git-format-patch outputs stuff in the mailbox format while cg-mkpatch outputs it in a more "human readable" (well, but quite historical) format, but really, you probably want to use git-format-patch in almost every case. In the (probably relatively near) future, cg-mkpatch might become merely a git-format-patch wrapper. > 3. It seem that if a commit as a binary file they are no way to manage > it by email patches. Any plan about this in Cogito ? Not any clear plans. I will welcome patches but it is not high priority for me currently. -- Petr "Pasky" Baudis Stuff: http://pasky.or.cz/ Right now I am having amnesia and deja-vu at the same time. I think I have forgotten this before. - : send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html