On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 11:58 AM, Ondrej Certik <ondrej@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi, > > I'd like git to be able to import mercurial-exported patches. This > short Python program does it: > > > ------------------------------------- > #! /usr/bin/python > > import os > import sys > import re > import tempfile > > def run(cmd): > print cmd > os.system(cmd) > > patch = sys.argv[1] > p = open(patch).read() > author = re.search("# User (.+)", p).groups()[0] > p = p.split("\n") > while not p[0].startswith("# Parent"): > del p[0] > i = 1 > while not p[i].startswith("diff -r "): > i += 1 > commit_message = "\n".join(p[1:i]) > _, filename = tempfile.mkstemp() > f = open(filename, "w") > f.write(commit_message) > f.close() > > run("git apply %s" % patch) > run("git ci -a --author='%s' -F %s" % (author, filename) ) > --------------------- > > > How should this be implemented in git? Should I try to extend > "git-am.sh" to handle it? Just to make it clear --- I will of course use sh or C with git, I only used Python above because that's the language I know the best. Ondrej -- 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