On 1/8/11 12:23 PM, David Chanters wrote:
Hi all,
[ Please Cc me on any replies as I am not subscribed to this list, thanks. ]
I am wondering if I can get git diff to create "CVS-style patches"?
What do I mean by that? Well, whenever I do:
git diff
I get patch headers in the form:
diff --git a/foo.c b/foo.c
index 57b9527..a2d947b 100644
--- a/foo.c
+++ b/foo.c
This is fine for git, but if I then want to import the same patch into
CVS I have to either edit the patch, or mess around with the -p option
to patch(1).
What exactly do you need to change in the patch? Remove the index line?
The '--git' string? Remove or change the a/, b/ prefix?
I have seen that git-diff has options to change the a/ b/ headers --
can anyone shed some light on this as to what I can do?
Are you maybe looking for the --no-prefix option?
tom
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