Re: [PATCH 2/2] Add support for URLs to git-apply

On Sun, Dec 09, 2007 at 02:54:58PM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote:

Andreas Ericsson [off-list ref] writes:

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Mike Hommey wrote:

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Instead of doing several "wget -O - url | git-apply -" in a raw, you now
can just git-apply url1 url2 ...

I seriously like this idea. Combined with gitweb (or cgit), it could be
used as a cherry-pick from someone else's repo :)

FWIW, my initial impression is that I seriously dislike this.  It may be
good if the patch were to git-am, but when git-apply rejects an
inapplicable patch, there won't be nothing left for you to recover with
and you need to re-download the patch anyway.

There are some usecase differences between git-apply and git-am.
Probably, this change would be good to have on both.

Mike