On Thu, 5 Oct 2006, Andrew Morton wrote: > > Linus, what's the best way of doing this? Will git dtrt with a patch which > copies files, or would a script which does the mkdir's and cp's be better? Git should dtrt. In fact, if you use git diff -C it should generate the appropriate "file copied" things automatically, and you don't need any huge file at all, you'll get a "patch" that looks something like diff --git a/fs/ext3/inode.c b/fs/ext4/inode.c similarity index 100% copy from fs/ext3/inode.c copy to fs/ext4/inode.c diff --git a/fs/ext3/super.c b/fs/ext4/super.c similarity index 98% copy from fs/ext3/super.c copy to fs/ext4/super.c index xyz..zzy 100644 --- a/fs/ext3/super.c +++ b/fs/ext4/super.c .. small diff that changes "ext3" to "ext4" goes here .. ie you'll effectively get the best of both worlds: a "diff", but one that is actually readable and shows what is going on. I hate to beat my own drum (not really), but git really _is_ a lot better than anything else out there ;) Linus - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
