[Quilt-dev] Re: being nice to patch(1)

[Junio C Hamano]

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 ;-)