Re: being nice to patch(1)

On 7/3/07, Johannes Schindelin [off-list ref] wrote:

Hi,
On Mon, 2 Jul 2007, Linus Torvalds wrote:

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On Mon, 2 Jul 2007, Junio C Hamano wrote:

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Linus Torvalds [off-list ref] writes:

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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?

ciao,
-- 
Paolo
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