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Re: Commitfest app release on Feb 17 with many improvements

Jelte Fennema-Nio <postgres@jeltef.nl>

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From: Jelte Fennema-Nio <postgres@jeltef.nl>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: vignesh C <vignesh21@gmail.com>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org>, Jacob Brazeal <jacob.brazeal@gmail.com>
Date: 2025-03-06T17:39:03Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
On Thu, 6 Mar 2025 at 18:10, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> Please see if you can make it use patch(1).  IME git is too
> stiff-necked about slightly stale patches no matter which
> subcommand you use.

It was using patch(1) in the past for that reason, but with --3way I
was able to get "git apply" to apply patches that patch(1) was unable
to apply. Also with the git command you get much more useful conflict
output.