Advantages of simpler patch management tools

[Mark Brown]

On Fri, Oct 12, 2007 at 05:37:08PM +0200, Remi Vanicat wrote:
> 2007/10/12, Kumar Appaiah <akumar at ee.iitm.ac.in>:

> > My question to madduck was, if you use a .git.tar.gz to replace the
> > old style .diff.gz approach, won't this actually make things difficult
> > for wannabe patch senders who don't know git? Won't they prefer the
> > old style .diff.gz instead?

> I've the same concern. Can we ask to all contributor to our package to
> know how to use git ?

So long as the tools can deal with all the required actions for git and
people can ignore the system used things should be fine.  git has good
support for interoperating with patches so it shouldn't cause too much
hassle on the git side.

-- 
"You grabbed my hand and we fell into it, like a daydream - or a fever."
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