Return-path: Received: from mail-pv0-f174.google.com ([74.125.83.174]:57857 "EHLO mail-pv0-f174.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753401Ab1DHUzu (ORCPT ); Fri, 8 Apr 2011 16:55:50 -0400 Date: Fri, 8 Apr 2011 13:57:20 -0700 From: "Carlos R. Mafra" To: Larry Finger Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman , wireless , LKML Subject: Re: Removal of staging/rt2860sta (and rt2870sta) Message-ID: <20110408205720.GA16065@Pilar.site> References: <4D9F2185.10108@lwfinger.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: <4D9F2185.10108@lwfinger.net> Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Fri, 8 Apr 2011 at 9:53:57 -0500, Larry Finger wrote: > > I did the changes on my local git tree, committed them, and used > 'git format-patch'. I expected that 'git rm' statements would be > used to delete the files, but I got normal patch format. As a > result, the resulting patch is over 2.4 GB, and has over 75,000 > lines. Obviously, I'm reluctant to dump a patch of this size on the > lists. Is there a way to force git to use "rm" statements, or is > there some way to handle this large patch? I've just remembered about this patch in the git list, which I think does what you want: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/170537/focus=170581