Don Zickus <dzickus@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> I deal with a lot of backported patches that are a combination of multiple
> commits. I was looking to develop a tool that would help me determine
> which chunks of the patch are upstream (not necessarily currently in HEAD
> but at some point in the file's history).
>
> For example, if I took the top three commits from HEAD and appended them
> into one patch file and then ran this tool with the patch as input, I
> would hope that it gave as output the three original commits.
A quick and dirty hack would be to:
rm .git/index
sed -ne 's/^[+ ]//p' -e '/^@@/p' patches... >file
git add file
git commit -m 'only "a file" remains'
git blame -C -C -w file
which would try blaming all the postimage concatenated together ;-)
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