Re: being nice to patch(1)

["Paolo Ciarrocchi" <paolo.ciarrocchi@gmail.com>]

On 7/3/07, Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> wrote:
> Hi,
> On Mon, 2 Jul 2007, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > On Mon, 2 Jul 2007, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> > > 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 ;-)
> >
> > I was more thinking that people are not necessarily willing to install git
> > just to get the "git-apply" program..
>
> 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?

ciao,
-- 
Paolo
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