Add patch to global.pp
Jesse Keating
jkeating at j2solutions.net
Fri Jul 17 06:44:53 UTC 2009
On Jul 16, 2009, at 21:24, Toshio Kuratomi <a.badger at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 07/16/2009 08:50 PM, Jesse Keating wrote:
>> On Thu, 2009-07-16 at 19:59 -0700, Toshio Kuratomi wrote:
>>> What's the consensus here?
>>
>> If we install patch, will git come next, since people will want to
>> git
>> am stuff? Not that I'm against having patch, it would make things
>> easier.
>
> Well I won't be adding that one :-)
>
> Thinking about this more seriously, patch can be useful on text
> files on
> any system. git is only useful on systems where we're making git
> checkouts. git-am, if I'm reading the man page right would only be
> useful where we have git checkouts and are receiving patches via mail?
>
Git am works on any file generated with git format-patch. That is most
often used with email but it does encapsulate the author and the
commit message and has a checksum itself that can be verified against
the upstream repo. Probably not something we need in global.
--
Jes
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