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[Quilt-dev] Re: being nice to patch(1)
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Johannes Schindelin |
Subject: |
[Quilt-dev] Re: being nice to patch(1) |
Date: |
Tue, 3 Jul 2007 13:35:44 +0100 (BST) |
Hi,
On Tue, 3 Jul 2007, Paolo Ciarrocchi wrote:
> On 7/3/07, Johannes Schindelin <address@hidden> wrote:
> > Hi,
> > On Mon, 2 Jul 2007, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > > On Mon, 2 Jul 2007, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> > > > Linus Torvalds <address@hidden> 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?
Heh, all three programs are "builtins", which means that you get almost
the whole package of git anyway ;-)
Ciao,
Dscho
- [Quilt-dev] Re: being nice to patch(1), Andrew Morton, 2007/07/03
- [Quilt-dev] Re: being nice to patch(1), Linus Torvalds, 2007/07/03
- [Quilt-dev] Re: being nice to patch(1), Andrew Morton, 2007/07/03
- [Quilt-dev] Re: being nice to patch(1), Linus Torvalds, 2007/07/03
- [Quilt-dev] Re: being nice to patch(1), Junio C Hamano, 2007/07/03
- [Quilt-dev] Re: being nice to patch(1), Linus Torvalds, 2007/07/03
- [Quilt-dev] Re: being nice to patch(1), Johannes Schindelin, 2007/07/03
- [Quilt-dev] Re: being nice to patch(1), Paolo Ciarrocchi, 2007/07/03
- [Quilt-dev] Re: being nice to patch(1),
Johannes Schindelin <=
- [Quilt-dev] Re: being nice to patch(1), Theodore Tso, 2007/07/03
- [Quilt-dev] Re: being nice to patch(1), Linus Torvalds, 2007/07/03
- [Quilt-dev] Re: being nice to patch(1), Paul Eggert, 2007/07/03
- [Quilt-dev] Re: being nice to patch(1), Linus Torvalds, 2007/07/03
- [Quilt-dev] Re: being nice to patch(1), Linus Torvalds, 2007/07/03
- [Quilt-dev] Re: being nice to patch(1), David Kastrup, 2007/07/03
- [Quilt-dev] Re: being nice to patch(1), Johannes Schindelin, 2007/07/03
- [Quilt-dev] Re: being nice to patch(1), David Kastrup, 2007/07/03
- [Quilt-dev] Re: being nice to patch(1), Johannes Schindelin, 2007/07/03
- [Quilt-dev] Re: being nice to patch(1), David Kastrup, 2007/07/03