On 12/12/14 11:45 AM, Andres Freund wrote:
> On 2014-12-12 11:42:57 -0500, Robert Haas wrote:
>>> I think the amount of effort a simple renamed directory which wholly
>>> contains a binary creates is acceptable. Just use patch -p4 instead of
>>> patch -p1...
>>
>> That is fine if you are manually applying a patch that touches only
>> that directory, but if the patch also touches other stuff then it's
>> not as simple.
>
> I think backpatchable commits that touch individual binaries and other
> code at the same time are (and ought to be!) pretty rare.
>
>> And I don't know how well git cherry-pick will follow
>> the moves.
>
> Not well if the patch is done in master first.
It does work. I have tried it with the changes I'm working on.
There might very well be limits to the cleverness of these tools, but if
you know of a fundamental reason why this would be a problem, let's
please hear it.
