From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2005 00:47:00 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/9] Fix git patch header processing in git-apply.
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0508291744400.3243@g5.osdl.org>
In-Reply-To: <20050829235823.GA19351@localhost>



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