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Re: [Arx-users] How to import a patch file?
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Walter Landry |
Subject: |
Re: [Arx-users] How to import a patch file? |
Date: |
Wed, 20 Jul 2005 22:31:54 -0700 (PDT) |
Peter Busser <address@hidden> wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I want to put the Linux kernel source tree in ArX. Doing that is no problem.
> But then I want to download a number of patches from the Internet, and apply
> them to the project. But after I commit, ArX seems to have left out the new
> files added by the patches.
>
> Is it possible to feed patches directly to ArX and to let ArX handle
> everything? I tried doing that useing arx dopatch, but I can't seem
> to make it do what I want. It seems to require a diff directory, but
> I have no idea how to convert a normal diff file into a
> directory. Can anyone explain how to do this?
dopatch is only for use with ArX patches. For what you need, there is
a script in tools/check-moved.py. It scans for new and moved files
and tells ArX about them. You have to build the python bindings for
it to work.
Cheers,
Walter