From: Alexandre Julliard Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2007 09:57:17 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH/POLL] git-format-patch: the default suffix is now .patch, not .txt Message-ID: <87y7o0mzcy.fsf@wine.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: <81b0412b0701172359y1ef4f936pcdcb2de53d6bd468@mail.gmail.com> "Alex Riesen" 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