On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 9:57 PM, Linus Torvalds
<torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> The thing is, "patch" is a total piece of utterly unbelievable SH*T.
>
> git-apply acts differently, yes, but it acts differently for a damn good
> reason. No, you cannot replace git-apply with that horrible crap that is
> GNU patch.
>
> Some of the reasons are purely trivial implementation issues:
>
> - git-apply knows about the index, and knows about updating it properly,
> including tracking new files automatically.
>
> That's an important thing, but yeah, it's an implementation issue.
>
> The other things that git-apply do right are much more fundamental:
>
agreed with all of them...
> So no. There's no way in hell that git am should use GNU patch.
>
Just for clarification, I'm not saying to replace git-apply by patch in git-am !
But in few situations it might be better to use GNU patch for git-am.
So we could have such option:
$ git am --applier="/usr/bin/patch" ...
thanks
--
Francis
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