From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Michael J Gruber Subject: Re: Support for a series of patches, i.e. patchset or changeset? Date: Mon, 05 Nov 2012 15:40:11 +0100 Message-ID: <5097CFCB.7090506@drmicha.warpmail.net> References: <5097C190.80406@drmicha.warpmail.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: git@vger.kernel.org To: Eric Miao X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Mon Nov 05 15:40:34 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1TVNqp-0008DO-NQ for gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org; Mon, 05 Nov 2012 15:40:32 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932499Ab2KEOkP (ORCPT ); Mon, 5 Nov 2012 09:40:15 -0500 Received: from out5-smtp.messagingengine.com ([66.111.4.29]:44136 "EHLO out5-smtp.messagingengine.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932490Ab2KEOkN (ORCPT ); Mon, 5 Nov 2012 09:40:13 -0500 Received: from compute6.internal (compute6.nyi.mail.srv.osa [10.202.2.46]) by gateway1.nyi.mail.srv.osa (Postfix) with ESMTP id EF72720AAE; Mon, 5 Nov 2012 09:40:12 -0500 (EST) Received: from frontend2.nyi.mail.srv.osa ([10.202.2.161]) by compute6.internal (MEProxy); Mon, 05 Nov 2012 09:40:12 -0500 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d= messagingengine.com; h=message-id:date:from:mime-version:to:cc :subject:references:in-reply-to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; s=smtpout; bh=vhbh3gdfbb0lXm58V7VCiq v5XL0=; b=g75cTjyMBZbYcnOe8Sv0T9J5rGRZwyXx9CYjjT+bUBnRfIB+JyBOAj sP2cAKwNfVb7t+je3lptIFg+PasofSCJ7XL9TpvBCtCIM5RV8SAstenNKq9qWJvJ rgy906xH6dyNm8F9niaqwLG4PETPquOfQjkibcMffeBjIZo/88JCs= X-Sasl-enc: loJB3dKdeTLErAFwQTsjvcGx4TUwUqN/hQDX2pyk+Xsu 1352126412 Received: from localhost.localdomain (unknown [130.75.46.56]) by mail.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTPA id 775794825CF; Mon, 5 Nov 2012 09:40:12 -0500 (EST) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:16.0) Gecko/20121016 Thunderbird/16.0.1 In-Reply-To: Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Eric Miao venit, vidit, dixit 05.11.2012 15:12: > The problem is, most cases we have no idea of the base rev1, and commit rev2 > which it's leading up to. E.g. for a single patch which is between > commit rev1..rev2, > how do we find out rev1 and rev2. So, then the question is: What do you know/have? Is your patch the output of "git format-patch", "git diff", or just some sort of diff without any git information? Michael