From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
git@vger.kernel.org, quilt-dev@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: being nice to patch(1)
Date: Mon, 02 Jul 2007 21:00:14 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7vhcomuofl.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.0.98.0707021713200.9434@woody.linux-foundation.org> (Linus Torvalds's message of "Mon, 2 Jul 2007 17:28:41 -0700 (PDT)")
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> 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 ;-)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-07-03 4:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-07-02 19:54 being nice to patch(1) Andrew Morton
2007-07-02 21:16 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-07-02 21:25 ` Andrew Morton
2007-07-02 21:40 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-07-02 21:56 ` Andrew Morton
2007-07-03 0:28 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-07-03 4:00 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2007-07-03 4:14 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-07-03 12:04 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-07-03 12:21 ` Paolo Ciarrocchi
2007-07-03 12:35 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-07-03 18:39 ` Theodore Tso
2007-07-03 19:48 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-07-03 20:55 ` Paul Eggert
2007-07-03 21:30 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-07-03 21:35 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-07-03 13:22 ` David Kastrup
2007-07-03 13:39 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-07-03 13:54 ` David Kastrup
2007-07-03 15:01 ` [PATCH] diff --no-index: fix --name-status with added files Johannes Schindelin
2007-07-03 15:01 ` being nice to patch(1) Johannes Schindelin
2007-07-03 15:08 ` David Kastrup
2007-07-06 12:38 ` David Kastrup
2007-07-06 15:22 ` git-diff memory/speed/disk impacts (was: being nice to patch(1)) David Kastrup
2007-07-06 18:08 ` being nice to patch(1) Linus Torvalds
2007-07-03 13:34 ` [Quilt-dev] " Andreas Gruenbacher
2007-07-03 15:49 ` Andrew Morton
2007-07-03 16:03 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-07-03 16:03 ` Andreas Gruenbacher
2007-07-03 16:15 ` Andrew Morton
2007-07-03 21:03 ` Andrew Morton
2007-07-03 21:03 ` Andrew Morton
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