On Tue, 30 Sep 2014 09:02:09 +0200, Uwe Kleine-König said:

> > 'diff -urN' has the advantage that it will work against a tree extracted
> > from a release tarball, and doesn't have a requirement that you have git

> That's wrong, patches generated by git-format-patch are also applicable
> just fine on top of an extracted tar ball by patch(1).

How you going to do a git-format-patch without git and a git tree? :)

(Remember, we're talking about *generating* patches, not applying them)

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