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

2014-10-21 Thread Junio C Hamano
Junio C Hamano 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 that > brea

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

2014-09-26 Thread Junio C Hamano
Junio C Hamano 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 wants to e

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

2014-09-25 Thread Junio C Hamano
Junio C Hamano 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 > documentation

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 again

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

2014-09-25 Thread Jörn Engel
e patches - ick! Jörn -- When I am 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-q

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

2014-09-24 Thread Junio C Hamano
Jörn Engel 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 huge d

[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