From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Greg KH Subject: Re: git applymbox is too anal Date: Fri, 9 Sep 2005 10:07:56 -0700 Message-ID: <20050909170756.GB24894@kroah.com> References: <20050908232535.GA7700@kroah.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Fri Sep 09 19:17:54 2005 Return-path: Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EDmTX-0007PU-9r for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Fri, 09 Sep 2005 19:15:43 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1030267AbVIIRPf (ORCPT ); Fri, 9 Sep 2005 13:15:35 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1030268AbVIIRPf (ORCPT ); Fri, 9 Sep 2005 13:15:35 -0400 Received: from mail.kroah.org ([69.55.234.183]:22152 "EHLO perch.kroah.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1030267AbVIIRPf (ORCPT ); Fri, 9 Sep 2005 13:15:35 -0400 Received: from [192.168.0.10] (c-24-22-115-24.hsd1.or.comcast.net [24.22.115.24]) (authenticated) by perch.kroah.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id j89HFXw01147; Fri, 9 Sep 2005 10:15:33 -0700 Received: from greg by echidna.kroah.org with local (masqmail 0.2.19) id 1EDmM0-6Xl-00; Fri, 09 Sep 2005 10:07:56 -0700 To: Linus Torvalds Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.10i Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Thu, Sep 08, 2005 at 05:58:18PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > On Thu, 8 Sep 2005, Greg KH wrote: > > > > Or am I missing some option to 'git applymbox' that I can't seem to > > find? > > No. git-apply wants an exact bit-for-bit match. Partly because fuzz is > hard, but mostly because I don't like it. I apply a _lot_ of patches, and > if a unforgiving "git-apply" works for me, it should work for you too. Ok, as I've been using quilt to stage patches before they are ready to send to you, sometimes, when I build up the final tree, there are tiny fuzz issues. I'll just make sure to fix this up before running applymbox in the future. thanks, greg k-h