From: Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2007 16:33:21 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix overwriting of the files to apply the patch to in git-apply
Message-ID: <81b0412b0704180933t7f161bcah57bce6dbea43a710@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <81b0412b0704180929h7960bedeje87050fa5ca543b0@mail.gmail.com>

On 4/18/07, Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com> wrote:
> The decision to check for directory first looks suboptimal.
> Why not try to _rename_ first and if that fails check if we've got a directory?
> An existing file seems to be more of a common case.

Simplier to code and read, for one.