Re: [Tracker] [PATCH] TST improvements, ...

[Calvin Walton <calvin walton gmail com>]

On Wed, 2010-05-05 at 13:46 +0200, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote:
> > On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 12:29, Martyn Russell <martyn lanedo com> wrote:
> > > > 38 - some clean-ups and consistency fixes (metadata tile)
> > >
> > > You use '%s' for URIs, please don't we use \"%s\" everywhere else in the
> > > code base and also it breaks for URIs which use ' in their name.
> > >
> > > We usually escape strings too before using them there, but I presume the
> > > URI came from Tracker so it should already be escaped.
> > >
> > > If you can fix those ' vs " issues, I will commit it.
> >
> > How do I do this other than reverting and redoing the patch?
>
> What I did was revert the patch and then re-apply, fix the issues, and
> commit. Is a better workflow (maybe git provides batteries for this
> kinda thing)?

A better way to do this is simply to make the changes with the patch
applied and committed. Then use 'git add' as if you were making a new
commit, but use 'git commit --amend' to update the previous commit
instead of creating a new one.

-- 
Calvin Walton <calvin walton gmail com>