Re: [PATCH] git-quiltimport.sh: disallow fuzz

2014-10-21 Thread Junio C Hamano
Junio C Hamano gits...@pobox.com writes: Things might have been different if this were mid 2006 or early 2007, but I am afraid that the spirit of git with a quote from Linus no longer carries much weight on this particular issue. A backward incompatible change is backward incompatible change

Re: [PATCH] git-quiltimport.sh: disallow fuzz

2014-09-26 Thread Junio C Hamano
Junio C Hamano gits...@pobox.com writes: Perhaps like this, with some documentation added (do we have/need any test???). -- 8 -- Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2014 18:08:31 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] git-quiltimport.sh: allow declining fuzz with --exact option And on top of that change, if somebody really

Re: [PATCH] git-quiltimport.sh: disallow fuzz

2014-09-25 Thread Jörn Engel
working on a problem I never think about beauty. I think only how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong. -- R. Buckminster Fuller Subject: [PATCH] git-quiltimport.sh: disallow fuzz by default git-quiltimport passed -C1 to git-apply

Re: [PATCH] git-quiltimport.sh: disallow fuzz

2014-09-25 Thread Junio C Hamano
, unless you have a -- 8 -- line below or something. Now is the patch beautiful? ;-) Subject: [PATCH] git-quiltimport.sh: disallow fuzz by default git-quiltimport passed -C1 to git-apply, supposedly to roughly match the quilt default of --fuzz 2. This is against the spirit of git. Quoting

Re: [PATCH] git-quiltimport.sh: disallow fuzz

2014-09-25 Thread Junio C Hamano
Junio C Hamano gits...@pobox.com writes: Let's have it the other way around, keep the same behaviour for those who run the command without the new option, while allowing people who know better and are aligned with the spirit of git to pass the parameter, at least for now, with a note in the

[PATCH] git-quiltimport.sh: disallow fuzz

2014-09-24 Thread Jörn Engel
git-quiltimport passed -C1 to git-apply, supposedly to roughly match the quilt default of --fuzz 2. This is against the spirit of git. Quoting Linus: Except unlike the standard patch program, git apply doesn't accept fuzz by default (which to me is a huge deal - I hate how patch tries to

Re: [PATCH] git-quiltimport.sh: disallow fuzz

2014-09-24 Thread Junio C Hamano
Jörn Engel jo...@logfs.org writes: git-quiltimport passed -C1 to git-apply, supposedly to roughly match the quilt default of --fuzz 2. This is against the spirit of git. Quoting Linus: Except unlike the standard patch program, git apply doesn't accept fuzz by default (which to me is a