Hi,
On Wed, 6 Feb 2002, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> The problem I have with piping patches directly to bk is that I don't like
> to switch back-and-forth between reading email and applying (and fixing
> up) patches. Even if the patch applies cleanly (which most of them tend to
> do) I still usually need to do at least some minimal editing of the commit
> message etc (removing stuff like "Hi Linus" etc).
I don't know how much your scripts already do, so below is just a
suggestion how to do some of the preprocessing of patches already during
email reading (the bk magic has to be added by someone else).
bye, Roman
#! /bin/bash
rm -f /tmp/test-patch /tmp/test-log
IFS=""
log=y
while read -r line; do
case "$line" in
---\ *)
log=n
;;
esac
test $log = y && echo "$line" >> /tmp/test-log
echo "$line" >> /tmp/test-patch
done
(
oldtty=`stty -g`
reset -Q
vim -o /tmp/test-log /tmp/test-patch
echo -n "ok?"
read
# do more
stty $oldtty
) < /dev/tty >& /dev/tty
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