From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Sun, 09 Dec 2007 22:54:58 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] Add support for URLs to git-apply
Message-ID: <7vhciro4vx.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <475C5869.4080900@op5.se>

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.

Note that I said my "initial" impression.  I reserve the right to change
my mind, as always ;-)