On 7/3/07, Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@xxxxxx> wrote:
Hi, On Mon, 2 Jul 2007, Linus Torvalds wrote: > 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.. 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 "Tutto cio' che merita di essere fatto,merita di essere fatto bene" Philip Stanhope IV conte di Chesterfield - 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
