Advantages of simpler patch management tools

[Romain Francoise]

martin f krafft <madduck at debian.org> writes:

> Yet, the number of times I had to modify a patch which would not
> apply cleanly anymore really made me long for a VCS with proper
> merge support to handle this.

You only have "smart" merge support if you get your upstream via
Git, otherwise you're just merging patches.  I'm not sure that Git
is really better at that than any other tool out there.

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