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

From: David Kågedal <davidk@lysator.liu.se>
Date: Jan 17, 2007, 15:43 UTC
Message-ID: <87ps9d7j6t.fsf@morpheus.local>
In-Reply-To: <625fc13d0701170510x8883539g93f43d9ddffe56f0@mail.gmail.com>

"Josh Boyer" <jwboyer@gmail.com> writes:

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> 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.

-- 
David Kågedal

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