On Mon, 2 Jul 2007, Junio C Hamano wrote: > Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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.. Linus - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html