On Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 02:45:59PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote: > 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 ;-) Heh. Interesting. I'll try that today. Thanks. Cheers, Don -- 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
