On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 1:09 AM, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > and no, git never did that file date thing, so git acts differently from > GNU patch in this thing (as in so many others, for that matter). > Well patch(1) is so used out there that makes git-apply often do the wrong thing for such corner cases when applying a patch made by patch(1). Maybe git-apply would be more friendly regarding patch(1) if it has an option to emulate GNU patch for some situations. Or if this means adding too many quirks in git-apply code, maybe give the possibity for git-am to use patch(1) instead of git-apply. -- Francis -- 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
