From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2008 17:52:20 GMT
Subject: Re: Call Me Gitless
Message-ID: <20080819175220.GA10142@coredump.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <7vy72tit90.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>

On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 08:22:19PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> I do not know if I like the end result, but here is a patch to make the
> traditional a/ and b/ prefix more mnemonic.

Hmm. Something deep in my gut doesn't like this, just because I like the
fact that no matter how I prepare a diff (and I do tend to do it
different ways and post to the mailing list) it always ends up the same.
For example, I sometimes "hand-generate" patch messages meant to be
applied by git-am by doing a diff between the working tree and index and
pasting the result into an email. It just feels a bit wrong for it not
to be the exact output I would get from commiting and running
format-patch.

And yes, obviously the prefix should be thrown away by am (and any sane
tools), so it shouldn't matter. So I don't think there is a technical
reason not to do so.  But one of the things I have always liked about
git is that no matter how I prepare content, the output is always the
same.

But maybe this is just me being a curmudgeonly old-timer. Feel free to
ignore.

-Peff