[U-Boot-Users] Remove the bios emulator binary files from MAI board

[Jin Zhengxiong-R64188]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: wd at denx.de [mailto:wd at denx.de] 
> Sent: Thursday, August 23, 2007 12:20 AM
> To: Jin Zhengxiong-R64188
> Cc: u-boot-users at lists.sourceforge.net; Loeliger Jon-LOELIGER
> Subject: Re: Remove the bios emulator binary files from MAI board
> 
> In message 
> <11877796533041-git-send-email-Jason.jin at freescale.com> you wrote:
> > 
> > As the patch was too large, I put it in a internal git development 
> > tree and listed the url link in the mail. The url link I listed was 
> > the 'plain' of the patch. It's no harm to common patch, but when 
> > there're binary files in the patch, the 'plain' can not 
> display those binaries.
> > So the patch you get from the 'plain' link may not include 
> the binary  
> > file deletion.
> 
> I'm afraid I don't really understand what that means.

I mean that my orignal patch include removing those binary files. but
the link can not display it. 

> >  I've tried to make another patch to delete those binary files. But 
> > this  patch is also large than the requirment. This time I 
> tried put 
> > the patch  itself on the link below, Please refer to it. Thanks.
> 
> Umm... why is your patch that big? When I remove a file, I 
> expect that the resulting "patch" takes only 3...4 lines per 
> removed file, something like this:
> 
> 	diff --git a/<file> b/<file>
> 	deleted file mode 100644
> 	index 5533346..0000000
> 	Binary files <file> and /dev/null differ
> 
> Are you using git-diff to create the patch? If not, you 
> should try that...

Usually, I use git-format-patch to create the patch and use git-apply
apply the patch.

Yes, git-diff can generate the patch like you descripted. but the patch
can not apply to the source by git-apply, I tried to use cg-patch to
apply this kind of patch, it can remove the binary files but can not
remove the empty directory. 

Best Regards.
Jason