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Re: [PATCH 1/9] Fix git patch header processing in git-apply.

From
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Date
Aug 30, 2005, 00:47 UTC
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<Pine.LNX.4.58.0508291744400.3243@g5.osdl.org>
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On Mon, 29 Aug 2005, Robert Fitzsimons wrote:
>
> I should have mentioned before, these changes are being used in a
> SourcePuller dump file to git import script I've been working on.

Hmm. Anything that depends on "--ignore-applied" is fundamentally broken as an import tool. There's no way something like that can be valid, since it inhently means that somebody is trying to apply a patch that simple isn't applicable.

So it seems like you're trying to work around some other serious problems in the import, and as a result the import is clearly not trustworthy. 

Don't do this.
			Linus
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Message 6 of 11 in “Fix git patch header processing in git-apply.”
  1. 1/9 Fix git patch header processing in git-apply.Robert Fitzsimons, Aug 28, 2005
  2. 2/9 Fix detection of files with only one line in git-apply.Robert Fitzsimons, Aug 28, 2005
  3. Linus TorvaldsAug 28, 2005
  4. Junio C HamanoAug 28, 2005
  5. Robert FitzsimonsAug 29, 2005
  6. Linus TorvaldsAug 30, 2005
  7. Junio C HamanoAug 30, 2005
  8. Linus TorvaldsAug 30, 2005
  9. Junio C HamanoAug 30, 2005
  10. Linus TorvaldsAug 30, 2005
  11. Martin LanghoffAug 30, 2005

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