Re: [RFC] Add a suffix option to git-format-patch

From: Andreas Ericsson <ae@op5.se>
Date: Jan 17, 2007, 16:57 UTC
Message-ID: <45AE5585.2040406@op5.se>
In-Reply-To: <87ps9d7j6t.fsf@morpheus.local>

David Kågedal wrote:

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> "Josh Boyer" <jwboyer@gmail.com> writes:
> 
>> Hi All,
>>
>> I use git quite a bit to track my changes and then use
>> git-format-patch to generate patches to send on to others.  For the
>> most part, it works great but I find myself constantly doing:
>>
>> mv xxxx-foo.txt xxxx-foo.patch
> 
> Seconded. I would even prefer .patch to be default, but I guess a
> config parameter would help me there.
>

Thirded, although I'd rather have it .gpatch, as it's a full commit with message and all. It isn't necessarily usable with the 'patch' program without manual massage first.

I can live with .txt though. Not many other files I keep around have names quite like 0001-loadbalance_module-support-config-fanout-in-static-mesh.txt, so it's not as if I frequently confuse them.

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