Re: being nice to patch(1)

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Jul 3, 2007, 04:00 UTC
Message-ID: <7vhcomuofl.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.0.98.0707021713200.9434@woody.linux-foundation.org>

Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> writes:

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> So I would suggest that in quilt and other systems, you either:
>
>  - strip all headers manually
>
>  - forget about "patch", and use "git-apply" instead that does things 
>    right and doesn't screw up like this (and can do rename diffs etc too).
>
> I guess the second choice generally isn't an option, but dammit, 
> "git-apply" really is the better program here.

Why not?  git-apply works outside of a git repo ;-)

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