Re: [PATCH] Teach 'git apply' to look at $GIT_DIR/config

From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Feb 17, 2007, 23:32 UTC
Message-ID: <20070217233203.GA6014@coredump.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <7vmz3cqs3d.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

On Sat, Feb 17, 2007 at 03:31:18PM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> I thought about that, but decided against it.  If you are truly
> operating outside a git managed repository, it does not feel
> right to apply configuration user has for git.

Then why are they using git-apply, and not patch?

-Peff

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