Re: being nice to patch(1)

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Jul 3, 2007, 12:04 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0707031303130.4071@racer.site>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.0.98.0707022114000.9434@woody.linux-foundation.org>

Hi,

On Mon, 2 Jul 2007, Linus Torvalds wrote:

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> On Mon, 2 Jul 2007, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> > Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> writes:
> > 
> > > So I would suggest that in quilt and other systems, you either:
> > >
> > >  - strip all headers manually
> > >
> > >  - forget about "patch", and use "git-apply" instead that does things 
> > >    right and doesn't screw up like this (and can do rename diffs etc too).
> > >
> > > I guess the second choice generally isn't an option, but dammit, 
> > > "git-apply" really is the better program here.
> > 
> > Why not?  git-apply works outside of a git repo ;-)
> 
> I was more thinking that people are not necessarily willing to install git 
> just to get the "git-apply" program..

But maybe they would be willing to install git to get that wonderful git-apply program, and that wonderful rename-and-mode-aware git-diff, and the git-merge-file program, all of which can operate outside of a git repository. (Take that, hg!)

Ciao, Dscho