Re: [PATCH] Teach 'git apply' to look at $GIT_DIR/config

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Feb 18, 2007, 02:01 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0702180301220.22628@wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>
In-Reply-To: <7vy7mwnsm9.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

Hi,

On Sat, 17 Feb 2007, Junio C Hamano wrote:

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> Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes:
> 
> >> I strongly disagree from my recent day-job experience. [Explains a 
> >> convincing use case in favour of cd-up.]
> >
> > Hmm. I have to think about that. But a consequence of what you suggest 
> > would be to disallow git-apply outside of a repository, because then you 
> > would introduce _another_ inconsistency (git-apply without --index would 
> > behave differently when inside a repo than when outside of one).
> 
> Why?  git-apply outside is like 'patch' isn't it?

So, why shouldn't it be the same inside? That's the inconsistency I am alluding to.

Ciao, Dscho