From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757937AbbA0PfN (ORCPT ); Tue, 27 Jan 2015 10:35:13 -0500 Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:33246 "EHLO plane.gmane.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751273AbbA0PfJ (ORCPT ); Tue, 27 Jan 2015 10:35:09 -0500 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: Andreas Gruenbacher Subject: Re: patch-2.7.3 no longer applies relative symbolic link patches Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2015 15:26:01 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 80-110-112-196.cgn.dynamic.surfer.at User-Agent: Pan/0.139 (Sexual Chocolate; GIT bf56508 git://git.gnome.org/pan2) Cc: git@vger.kernel.org Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, 26 Jan 2015 12:44:33 -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > I've considered that for a while already, because "patch" _does_ kind of > understand them these days, although I think it gets the cross-rename > case wrong because it fundamentally works on a file-by-file basis. Patch handles cross-renames correctly nowadays; if not, it's a bug. That's not enough to solve the symlink problem unfortunately. Andreas From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andreas Gruenbacher Subject: Re: patch-2.7.3 no longer applies relative symbolic link patches Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2015 15:26:01 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org To: git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Tue Jan 27 16:30:13 2015 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 1YG85j-00017U-3I for gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org; Tue, 27 Jan 2015 16:30:11 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753215AbbA0PaH (ORCPT ); Tue, 27 Jan 2015 10:30:07 -0500 Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:32941 "EHLO plane.gmane.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752119AbbA0PaF (ORCPT ); Tue, 27 Jan 2015 10:30:05 -0500 Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1YG85b-00011i-Sa for git@vger.kernel.org; Tue, 27 Jan 2015 16:30:03 +0100 Received: from 80-110-112-196.cgn.dynamic.surfer.at ([80.110.112.196]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 27 Jan 2015 16:30:03 +0100 Received: from agruen by 80-110-112-196.cgn.dynamic.surfer.at with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 27 Jan 2015 16:30:03 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 80-110-112-196.cgn.dynamic.surfer.at User-Agent: Pan/0.139 (Sexual Chocolate; GIT bf56508 git://git.gnome.org/pan2) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Mon, 26 Jan 2015 12:44:33 -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > I've considered that for a while already, because "patch" _does_ kind of > understand them these days, although I think it gets the cross-rename > case wrong because it fundamentally works on a file-by-file basis. Patch handles cross-renames correctly nowadays; if not, it's a bug. That's not enough to solve the symlink problem unfortunately. Andreas