On Sun, Dec 09, 2007 at 02:54:58PM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote:
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> Andreas Ericsson <ae@op5.se> 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.

There are some usecase differences between git-apply and git-am.
Probably, this change would be good to have on both.

Mike

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