Re: [PATCH] h8300 move header files

[Yoshinori Sato]

At Tue, 12 Aug 2008 13:25:17 -0700 (PDT),
Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
> 
> 
> On Tue, 12 Aug 2008, Yoshinori Sato wrote:
> > 
> > My h8300 repository can't public access.
> > Also difficult pull request.
> 
> The nice thing about git is that it doesn't care one whit how something 
> gets moved. So you can
> 
>  - just send me a regular patch (as a git user, it can be the "git 
>    shorthand" kind of patch that has explicit renames, but it can be a 
>    traditional patch with delete/create pairs too, and git won't care AT 
>    ALL because the end result is the same)
> 
>  - or just send me a shell script to do the renames along with a small 
>    patch to fix up any other issues that happen as a result of the rename, 
>    and a explanation for me to use as a commit message.
> 
> Renames in git do not have to be handled as "git" events, unlike many 
> other broken models. Git will do the right thing regardless.
> 
> 			Linus

OK.
please run this script at toplevel.

-- cut here --
#!/bin/sh
mkdir -p arch/h8300/include/asm
git mv include/asm-h8300/* arch/h8300/include/asm
git commit -m 'move include/asm-h8300 to arch/h8300/include/asm'
-- cut here --

And commit log is
Created commit 2f163b8: move include/asm-h8300 to arch/h8300/include/asm
 99 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
 rename {include/asm-h8300 => arch/h8300/include/asm}/Kbuild (100%)
(snip)
 rename {include/asm-h8300 => arch/h8300/include/asm}/virtconvert.h (100%)

All files rename only.

-- 
Yoshinori Sato
<ysato@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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