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.IX Title "COMMIT-PATCH 1"
.TH COMMIT-PATCH 1 "2006-08-23" "perl v5.8.8" "User Commands"
.SH "NAME"
commit\-patch \- commit patches to \fICVS\fR, \fIDarcs\fR or \fIMercurial\fR repositories
.SH "SYNOPSIS"
.IX Header "SYNOPSIS"
commit-patch [\fB\-m\fR \fImessage\fR] \fIpatch-file\fR
.SH "DESCRIPTION"
.IX Header "DESCRIPTION"
Normally version control systems don't allow fine grained
commits. \fBcommit-patch\fR allows the user to control \fIexactly\fR what
gets committed (or \*(L"recorded\*(R", in \fIDarcs\fR parlance) by letting the user
supply a patch to be committed rather than using the files in the
current working directory.
.PP
\&\fBcommit-patch\fR currently supports the following version control systems:
\&\fB\f(BI\s-1CVS\s0\fB\fR, \fB\f(BIDarcs\fB\fR, and \fB\f(BIMercurial\fB\fR.
.SH "OPTIONS"
.IX Header "OPTIONS"
\&\fB\-m\fR, \fB\-\-message\fR=\fImessage\fR \- An optional \fImessage\fR to use as the commit
text. If the message is multiple lines then \fIMercurial\fR and \fIDarcs\fR
will use the first line as the patch name and the rest as commit
details. If the \f(CW\*(C`\-m\*(C'\fR option is not specified then the result will be
the same as whatever the underlying version control system would do if
you didn't specify a message name on the command line. That is,
\&\fBcommit-patch\fR does not interfere with the patch naming process of
the underlying version control system; \fIDarcs\fR will still ask you
interactively and \fI\s-1CVS\s0\fR will still launch your editor.
.SH "DIAGNOSTICS"
.IX Header "DIAGNOSTICS"
\&\fBcommit-patch\fR works by manipulating the working directory using
\&\f(CW\*(C`patch\*(C'\fR, \f(CW\*(C`interdiff\*(C'\fR, and the underlying version control system's
\&\f(CW\*(C`diff\*(C'\fR.  If any part of the process fails, \fBcommit-patch\fR will
attempt to restore the working directory to the state it was before
the command was run. Any errors from the underlying version control
system or from patch will be printed.
.SH "CAVEATS"
.IX Header "CAVEATS"
The patch specified on the command line must originate from the same
place as the current directory. That is, the following will not work:
.PP
.Vb 3
\&  cvs diff \-u > ../a.patch
\&  cd ..
\&  commit\-patch a.patch
.Ve
.PP
You \fBmust\fR run \fBcommit-patch\fR from the same directory that the
original patch was based from.
.PP
\&\fIDarcs\fR and \fIMercurial\fR put \f(CW\*(C`a/\*(C'\fR and \f(CW\*(C`b/\*(C'\fR in front of all the paths
in the diff output. Don't worry about this; \fBcommit-patch\fR takes it into
account.
.SH "EXAMPLES"
.IX Header "EXAMPLES"
Typical \fI\s-1CVS\s0\fR usage:
.PP
.Vb 3
\&  cvs diff \-u > a.patch
\&  emacs a.patch
\&  commit\-patch a.patch
.Ve
.PP
\&\fIMercurial\fR usage with a message specified:
.PP
.Vb 3
\&  hg diff > a.patch
\&  emacs a.patch
\&  commit\-patch \-m "This is a commit message" a.patch
.Ve
.PP
\&\fIDarcs\fR usage with a multi-line message specified:
.PP
.Vb 4
\&  darcs diff \-u > a.patch
\&  emacs a.patch
\&  commit\-patch \-m 'This is the patch name
\&  Here are the patch details' a.patch
.Ve
.SH "AUTHORS"
.IX Header "AUTHORS"
.IP "\(bu" 4
David Caldwell <david@porkrind.org>
.IP "\(bu" 4
Jim Radford <radford@blackbean.org>
.SH "COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE"
.IX Header "COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE"
Copyright 2003\-2006 by David Caldwell and Jim Radford.
.PP
\&\fBcommit-patch\fR is distributed under the \s-1GNU\s0 General Public
License. See the \s-1COPYING\s0 file in the distribution for more details.
.SH "HISTORY"
.IX Header "HISTORY"
\&\fBcommit-patch\fR was originally called \f(CW\*(C`cvs\-commit\-patch\*(C'\fR and was a
bash script written in 2003 by Jim Radford (with David Caldwell in the
room drawing the procedure on a white board). David later converted it
do \f(CW\*(C`darcs\-commit\-patch\*(C'\fR, then integrated them back together into
\&\fBcommit-patch\fR. \fIMercurial\fR support was then added. At some point
David translated from bash into perl because funky bash quoting issues
were causing problems with a repository that had a space in one of the
directory names.