Re: [PATCH] Introduce 'git-format-patch --suffix=patch'

From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Jan 17, 2007, 19:57 UTC
Message-ID: <7vps9dqvdq.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <D085A8A2-F1EC-47EC-8D96-B8A06E483BDB@silverinsanity.com>

Brian Gernhardt <benji@silverinsanity.com> writes:

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> I think that the best form of DWIM is that if the suffix is "", then
> you simply skip the entire sprintf.  Then any suffix has to have the
> '.', but no suffix doesn't have it.  Additional DWIMMmery could
> remove an initial '.' from the suffix so that users expecting it to
> be there don't get ".." in their file.

I think it is generally accepted on this list that that kind of DWIMmery is bad.

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