From: David Kågedal <davidk@lysator.liu.se>
Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2007 18:15:08 GMT
Subject: Re: [RFC] Add a suffix option to git-format-patch
Message-ID: <87lkk17c5v.fsf@morpheus.local>
In-Reply-To: <7vejptsglj.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> writes:

> Emacs wanted to go into its "diff" mode when files are named with
> .patch suffix, 

This is probably the primary reason why I *want* it to be .patch.  The
diff-mode in Emacs is really useful, and read-write mode is only a C-x
C-q away.

> which had two annoyances (read-only by default, and
> editing patch tried to automatically recount diff and its recounting
> screwed up in some cases I do not remember the details about).

I rarely edit patches, but it has worked for me.

-- 
David Kågedal