git apply vs. renamed files index mismatch (was: Re: [PATCH 1/4] POWERPC: Rename dma_64.c to dma.c)

Christoph Hellwig hch at lst.de
Tue Sep 9 07:58:33 EST 2008


On Tue, Sep 09, 2008 at 01:27:17AM +0400, Anton Vorontsov wrote:
> I always thought that posting "-M" patches to the public lists is
> discouraged since it is quite difficult to apply them via patch(1).
> Also think of non-git users...

Yes, it's a horrible idea.




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