Re: [PATCH/POLL] git-format-patch: the default suffix is now .patch, not .txt

From: Alexandre Julliard <julliard@winehq.org>
Date: Jan 18, 2007, 09:57 UTC
Message-ID: <87y7o0mzcy.fsf@wine.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <81b0412b0701172359y1ef4f936pcdcb2de53d6bd468@mail.gmail.com>

"Alex Riesen" <raa.lkml@gmail.com> writes:

> Also, how many mail clients know that .patch is actually
> a text and not application/binary? It'll make patch
> reviewing harder for some (not sure if I'd like a review
> of such a person, though).

OTOH such mail clients usually also think they can freely reformat text files, leading to unusable patches. A .patch extension would help avoid that type of breakage, so I think it's a good idea.

-- 
Alexandre Julliard
julliard@winehq.org

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