Re: being nice to patch(1)

> On 7/3/07, Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> wrote:
> > Hi,
> > On Mon, 2 Jul 2007, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > > 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!)
> 
> How about shipping just these commands as a separate package?
> Is that a cray idea?