From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2006 03:04:30 GMT
Subject: Re: Combined diff format documentation
Message-ID: <7vmz7jkcap.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <200610260148.k9Q1mr99007511@laptop13.inf.utfsm.cl>

"Horst H. von Brand" <vonbrand@inf.utfsm.cl> writes:

>> Correct.  This was done to prevent people from accidentally
>> feeding it to "patch -p1".  In other words, we wanted to make it
>> so obvious that it is _not_ a patch.
>
> It isn't, really... perhaps it should be made /more/ obvious (not use @ but
> e.g. &, ...)?

Eh, sorry, what I meant was "obvious to the tool", so "patch"
would take notice.