Re: My Itchlist

[Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz>]

Dear diary, on Sat, Aug 06, 2005 at 04:39:01AM CEST, I got a letter
where Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> told me that...
> On Fri, 5 Aug 2005, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> > - teach git-apply "reverse" and possibly "fuzz".
> > 
> >   I think this might help Porcelain; currently they have to
> >   interpret git extended diff headers themselves.
> 
> Reverse would definitely be useful. "fuzz" is really pretty dangerous. I 
> think that once a a patch doesn't apply, you really want to have helper 
> tools like a graphical "wiggle" etc, and that really means that it's not 
> "git-apply", it's something totally different.

I don't know, but I come across fuzzy patches quite frequently and any
problems have been always _extremely_ rare. And in any case, I can (and
do) verify it right away by doing cg-diff and checking what changes did
the patch really do.

> And quite frankly, if you have a tool that can handle unified diffs 
> already, then extending it for the git rename stuff should be pretty easy. 
> It's not like we haven't wanted renaming patches for at least a _decade_ 
> already, it's just that nobody ever did them. 

That reminds me I should finally add support for renames to cg-patch...

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				Petr "Pasky" Baudis
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