Re: being nice to patch(1)

From: Theodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu>
Date: Jul 3, 2007, 18:39 UTC
Message-ID: <20070703183947.GE5322@thunk.org>
In-Reply-To: <4d8e3fd30707030521k6cb3129dy9193344e9e1eccf7@mail.gmail.com>

On Tue, Jul 03, 2007 at 02:21:51PM +0200, Paolo Ciarrocchi wrote:

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> >But maybe they would be willing to install git to get that wonderful
> >git-apply program, and that wonderful rename-and-mode-aware git-diff, and
> >the git-merge-file program, all of which can operate outside of a git
> >repository. (Take that, hg!)
> 
> How about shipping just these commands as a separate package?
> Is that a cray idea?

Or people could submit a bug report/feature request/patch to the patch(1) maintainer. :-)

						- Ted