On Mon, Sep 08, 2008 at 02:18:42PM -0500, Scott Wood wrote: > Becky Bruce wrote: >> This is in preparation for the merge of the 32 and 64-bit >> dma code in arch/powerpc. >> >> Signed-off-by: Becky Bruce <becky.bruce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> >> --- >> arch/powerpc/kernel/Makefile | 2 +- >> arch/powerpc/kernel/dma.c | 200 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ >> arch/powerpc/kernel/dma_64.c | 200 ------------------------------------------ >> 3 files changed, 201 insertions(+), 201 deletions(-) >> create mode 100644 arch/powerpc/kernel/dma.c >> delete mode 100644 arch/powerpc/kernel/dma_64.c > > Passing -M to git format-patch makes it much easier I always thought that posting "-M" patches to the public lists is discouraged since it is quite difficult to apply them via patch(1). Also think of non-git users... > to see whether > anything changed between the old file and the new file. This is still possible by comparing the hashes: diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/dma.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/dma.c new file mode 100644 index 0000000..ae5708e [...] diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/dma_64.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/dma_64.c deleted file mode 100644 index ae5708e..0000000 That is, if hashes match then it was pure rename. Though, too bad git {apply,am} does not produce any warnings if there are any hidden changes... Cc'ing git mailing list. -- Anton Vorontsov email: cbouatmailru@xxxxxxxxx irc://irc.freenode.net/bd2 -- 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