linux-kernel - Re: [git pull] vfs patches, part 1

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Message-ID: <7v3ag4xegt.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
Date:	Wed, 31 Dec 2008 12:43:46 -0800
From:	Junio C Hamano <gitster@...ox.com>
To:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	Al Viro <viro@...IV.linux.org.uk>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [git pull] vfs patches, part 1

Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org> writes:

> In case you wonder what the easiest way to fix things up is: just export 
> the series as a mbox ("git log -p --stat --pretty=email linus.. > mbox") 
> and then just edit the single mbox file to remove crud. Then you can 
> re-apply it with "git am".
>
> Of course, with git you can do it in a million different ways: You could 
> do it with "git format-patch" or with "git rebase -i" too, for example, 
> but exporting it as an mbox means that you can do it in one single editing 
> session, which is how at least I personally work. Much nicer than having 
> to handle each commit individually.

The "format-patch" equivalent to export to a single mbox is:

    $ git format-patch --stdout linus.. >mbox

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