From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on dcvr.yhbt.net X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-ASN: AS31976 209.132.176.0/21 X-Spam-Status: No, score=-3.5 required=3.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00, DKIM_ADSP_CUSTOM_MED,FREEMAIL_FORGED_FROMDOMAIN,FREEMAIL_FROM, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,MSGID_FROM_MTA_HEADER,RP_MATCHES_RCVD shortcircuit=no autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 From: Jakub Narebski Subject: git-am vs. git-applymbox Date: Sun, 05 Nov 2006 13:10:28 +0100 Organization: At home Message-ID: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 5 Nov 2006 12:10:49 +0000 (UTC) Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 21 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: host-81-190-24-209.torun.mm.pl Mail-Copies-To: jnareb@gmail.com User-Agent: KNode/0.10.2 Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Gggpb-0000jN-NP for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Sun, 05 Nov 2006 13:10:32 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S965599AbWKEMK2 (ORCPT ); Sun, 5 Nov 2006 07:10:28 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S965855AbWKEMK2 (ORCPT ); Sun, 5 Nov 2006 07:10:28 -0500 Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2]:16785 "EHLO ciao.gmane.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S965599AbWKEMK1 (ORCPT ); Sun, 5 Nov 2006 07:10:27 -0500 Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1GggpG-0000e0-IN for git@vger.kernel.org; Sun, 05 Nov 2006 13:10:10 +0100 Received: from host-81-190-24-209.torun.mm.pl ([81.190.24.209]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 05 Nov 2006 13:10:10 +0100 Received: from jnareb by host-81-190-24-209.torun.mm.pl with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 05 Nov 2006 13:10:10 +0100 To: git@vger.kernel.org Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org git-applymbox - Apply a series of patches in a mailbox git-am - Apply a series of patches in a mailbox What are the differences between thos two commands, UI-wise and capability (feature) wise? Which one should I use? Which one do _you_ use? And why git has yet another set of commands which do the same (well, git-annotate vs. git-blame "war" was won by git-blame, and git-pickaxe was born). By the way, could we standarize somewhat short options for git commands, like -q for quiet, -v for verbose, -i for interactive, -S for pickaxe (search in diff), -n for some kind of no-op/do nothing (e.g. --no-commit), -f for force, -l for list, -k for skip errors/keep working even in the case of errors? It would be nice to have this in Documentation/API somewhere... -- Jakub Narebski Warsaw, Poland ShadeHawk on #git