Re: being nice to patch(1)

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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
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