Re:Apache Software Foundation joins GitHub open source commu...
by kazinator on Monday April 29, 2019 @10:17PM
(#19784551)
Patches sucked, so Torvalds switched to BitKeeper and then wrote Git.
If my project uses Git, I can easily accept a patch. If someone happens to give me a patch against some old version that doesn't apply to HEAD, I can just "git reset --hard" the HEAD that version, apply the patch, and then rebase with "git rebase".
I would expect most people to be making patches out of their own git repo (using "git format-patch") anyway; they should be able to rebase first.
If my project uses Git, I can easily accept a patch. If someone happens to give me a patch against some old version that doesn't apply to HEAD, I can just "git reset --hard" the HEAD that version, apply the patch, and then rebase with "git rebase".
I would expect most people to be making patches out of their own git repo (using "git format-patch") anyway; they should be able to rebase first.