From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Theodore Tso Subject: Re: being nice to patch(1) Date: Tue, 3 Jul 2007 14:39:48 -0400 Message-ID: <20070703183947.GE5322@thunk.org> References: <20070702125450.28228edd.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20070702142557.eba61ccd.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20070702145601.a0dcef0f.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <7vhcomuofl.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> <4d8e3fd30707030521k6cb3129dy9193344e9e1eccf7@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Johannes Schindelin , Linus Torvalds , Junio C Hamano , Andrew Morton , git@vger.kernel.org, quilt-dev@nongnu.org To: Paolo Ciarrocchi X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Tue Jul 03 20:40:10 2007 connect(): Connection refused Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1I5nIH-0000DN-EB for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Tue, 03 Jul 2007 20:40:09 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755835AbXGCSkH (ORCPT ); Tue, 3 Jul 2007 14:40:07 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1756020AbXGCSkG (ORCPT ); Tue, 3 Jul 2007 14:40:06 -0400 Received: from THUNK.ORG ([69.25.196.29]:52472 "EHLO thunker.thunk.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755189AbXGCSkF (ORCPT ); Tue, 3 Jul 2007 14:40:05 -0400 Received: from root (helo=candygram.thunk.org) by thunker.thunk.org with local-esmtps (tls_cipher TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA:32) (Exim 4.50 #1 (Debian)) id 1I5nPp-000351-UW; Tue, 03 Jul 2007 14:47:58 -0400 Received: from tytso by candygram.thunk.org with local (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1I5nHw-0003xx-7a; Tue, 03 Jul 2007 14:39:48 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4d8e3fd30707030521k6cb3129dy9193344e9e1eccf7@mail.gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: tytso@thunk.org X-SA-Exim-Scanned: No (on thunker.thunk.org); SAEximRunCond expanded to false Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Tue, Jul 03, 2007 at 02:21:51PM +0200, Paolo Ciarrocchi wrote: > >But maybe they would be willing to install git to get that wonderful > >git-apply program, and that wonderful rename-and-mode-aware git-diff, and > >the git-merge-file program, all of which can operate outside of a git > >repository. (Take that, hg!) > > How about shipping just these commands as a separate package? > Is that a cray idea? Or people could submit a bug report/feature request/patch to the patch(1) maintainer. :-) - Ted