From: Mike Hommey <mh@glandium.org>
Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2007 06:46:59 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] Add support for URLs to git-apply
Message-ID: <20071210064659.GA4148@glandium.org>
In-Reply-To: <7vhciro4vx.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>

On Sun, Dec 09, 2007 at 02:54:58PM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Andreas Ericsson <ae@op5.se> writes:
> 
> > Mike Hommey wrote:
> >> Instead of doing several "wget -O - url | git-apply -" in a raw, you now
> >> can just git-apply url1 url2 ...
> >>
> >
> > I seriously like this idea. Combined with gitweb (or cgit), it could be
> > used as a cherry-pick from someone else's repo :)
> 
> FWIW, my initial impression is that I seriously dislike this.  It may be
> good if the patch were to git-am, but when git-apply rejects an
> inapplicable patch, there won't be nothing left for you to recover with
> and you need to re-download the patch anyway.

There are some usecase differences between git-apply and git-am.
Probably, this change would be good to have on both.

Mike