On Tuesday 03 July 2007 02:28, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 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.
I'm in bit of a conflict with choice one: when applying patches in an
automated build process or similar, the likely way to do so is a simple loop
over the series file. So the less magic when applying patches with quilt, the
better.
Turning off the insane heuristic with patch -u will do well enough I hope.
Quilt does not use that option by default because it also supports context
diffs (some people / projects prefer them), but that can easily be customized
in .quiltrc:
QUILT_PATCH_OPTS=-u
Andreas
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