On Thu, Aug 09, 2007 at 04:11:46PM -0700, Joe Perches wrote: > A few linux kernel source and git questions: > > What's the best procedure to handle a tree-wide source tranformation? > For instance: > > git branch foo2bar > egrep -r -w --include=*.[ch] -l "foo" * | \ > xargs perl -pi -e 's/\bfoo\b/bar/msg' > git commit -a -m "use bar not foo" > Is there a way to separate the resultant single patch into multiple > patches by subdirectory? Perhaps some git-rev-parse option? Something like for each sub/dir: git add sub/dir git commit -m "use bar not foo in sub/dir" should do it. (Of course, in the particular case above the patches you ended up with probably wouldn't compile individually.) --b. - To unsubscribe from this list: 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
