From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2007 03:54:22 GMT
Subject: Re: Some index-base bug in "next" branch ("git-applymbox"-related?)..
Message-ID: <7vlkgxgc9d.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0704121812440.4061@woody.linux-foundation.org>

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

> On Thu, 12 Apr 2007, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>> 
>> This will teach applymbox the index base safety, but it shows
>> that the division between applymbox and applypatch makes things
>> less efficient than how git-am can do the same.
>
> Hey, I'd happily use git-am too..
>
> If you want to deprecare git-applymbox, why don't you just make it an 
> alias for git-am, potentially doing the defaults and command line argument 
> conversion?

I'd rather not.

The whole reason I did not _enhance_ git-applymbox but wrote a
separate git-am was because I found git-applymbox's command line
parameter quite insane and felt that supporting it at the same
time doing a saner command line parameter was too much kludge.