From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Junio C Hamano Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] Add support for URLs to git-apply Date: Sun, 09 Dec 2007 14:54:58 -0800 Message-ID: <7vhciro4vx.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> References: <1197194672-28568-1-git-send-email-mh@glandium.org> <1197194672-28568-2-git-send-email-mh@glandium.org> <475C5869.4080900@op5.se> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Mike Hommey , git@vger.kernel.org To: Andreas Ericsson X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Sun Dec 09 23:55:34 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1J1V3d-0005nI-Kw for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Sun, 09 Dec 2007 23:55:34 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751799AbXLIWzM (ORCPT ); Sun, 9 Dec 2007 17:55:12 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751225AbXLIWzM (ORCPT ); Sun, 9 Dec 2007 17:55:12 -0500 Received: from a-sasl-quonix.pobox.com ([208.72.237.25]:50776 "EHLO sasl.smtp.pobox.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751137AbXLIWzK (ORCPT ); Sun, 9 Dec 2007 17:55:10 -0500 Received: from a-sasl-quonix (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by a-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id E66285304; Sun, 9 Dec 2007 17:55:04 -0500 (EST) Received: from pobox.com (ip68-225-240-77.oc.oc.cox.net [68.225.240.77]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by a-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7D7CE5302; Sun, 9 Dec 2007 17:55:01 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: <475C5869.4080900@op5.se> (Andreas Ericsson's message of "Sun, 09 Dec 2007 22:04:41 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/21.4 (gnu/linux) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Andreas Ericsson writes: > Mike Hommey wrote: >> Instead of doing several "wget -O - url | git-apply -" in a raw, you now >> can just git-apply url1 url2 ... >> > > I seriously like this idea. Combined with gitweb (or cgit), it could be > used as a cherry-pick from someone else's repo :) FWIW, my initial impression is that I seriously dislike this. It may be good if the patch were to git-am, but when git-apply rejects an inapplicable patch, there won't be nothing left for you to recover with and you need to re-download the patch anyway. Note that I said my "initial" impression. I reserve the right to change my mind, as always ;-)