Advantages of simpler patch management tools

[martin f krafft]

also sprach Romain Francoise <rfrancoise at debian.org> [2007.10.10.1748 +0100]:
> You only have "smart" merge support if you get your upstream via
> Git, otherwise you're just merging patches.  I'm not sure that Git
> is really better at that than any other tool out there.

Actually, it seems like it isn't:

  http://marc.info/?t=119198137100002&r=1&w=2

Well, with dpatch at least it would be a royal pain to resolve
conflicts. So I guess it's not the merge support I am hinting at,
but the conflict resolution support Linus alludes to in his second
reply:

  http://marc.info/?l=git&m=119203197706666&w=2

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