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

From: Junio C Hamano <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2014 22:09:33 -0700

Jörn Engel <[email-masked]> 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 deal - I hate how "patch" tries
>   to apply stuff that clearly isn't valid any more)
>
> It also causes active harm when combining git-quiltimport with regular
> quilt and quilt is used with --fuzz=0,...

This is fine for those who use quilt with --fuzz=0, but how are you
helping those who use quilt without --fuzz=0?

I agree that unconditionally passing -C1 is a bad thing, but
unconditionally passing -C2 is not that better.  Shouldn't this be
done by introducing a new --fuzz=<number> option to quiltimport?

>
> Signed-off-by: Joern Engel <[email-masked]>
> ---
>  git-quiltimport.sh | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/git-quiltimport.sh b/git-quiltimport.sh
> index 167d79fea809..3eb2e2fd3648 100755
> --- a/git-quiltimport.sh
> +++ b/git-quiltimport.sh
> @@ -130,7 +130,7 @@ do
>  	fi
>  
>  	if [ -z "$dry_run" ] ; then
> -		git apply --index -C1 ${level:+"$level"} "$tmp_patch" &&
> +		git apply --index ${level:+"$level"} "$tmp_patch" &&
>  		tree=$(git write-tree) &&
>  		commit=$( (echo "$SUBJECT"; echo; cat "$tmp_msg") | git commit-tree $tree -p $commit) &&
>  		git update-ref -m "quiltimport: $patch_name" HEAD $commit || exit 4