Issues using mq on large projects

Thomas Arendsen Hein thomas at intevation.de
Tue Mar 6 02:50:34 CST 2007


* Markus F.X.J. Oberhumer <markus at oberhumer.com> [20070305 18:36]:
> Thomas Arendsen Hein wrote:
> >* Daniel Santa Cruz <byteshack at gmail.com> [20070305 17:22]:
> >>On 3/4/07, Matt Mackall <mpm at selenic.com> wrote:
> >>>As git-style patches are not backward-compatible with patch (and
> >>>rather ugly to boot), we don't use them by default.
> >>Is there a patch tool that does understand this?
> >Yes, mpatch: http://oss.oracle.com/~mason/mpatch/
> 
> Are there any plans to merge this into hg?

Yes, this is planned, but depends on people having time to do this.

> I think a "hgpatch" would be a valuable addition.

Indeed, and it would solve many of the problems occuring on Windows,
because we can rely on a defined behaviour regarding CR/LF.

Thomas

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