Re: RFC round 5: DEP-3: Patch Tagging Guidelines
On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 7:53 AM, Pierre Habouzit <madcoder@madism.org> wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 07, 2009 at 10:30:14PM +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote:
>> Anyway, I'd rather wait some time until people have tried using this
>> format before deciding if we must make some special case due to
>> git format-patch.
>
> It's not a special case. Kernel people, git people, gnome people, X.org
> people, all can cherry-pick patches and format-patch them away. If you
> ask them to add one missing header like the actual source or commid-id
> they took the patch from, they'll probably do it (I would at least). If
> you ask to rewrite the full stuff, then really, "go to hell" will
> probably be the (sane) answer you'll get.
What format do the other DVCS systems use for patch export?
Also, the git format-patch command can include encoded binary files,
which I don't think patch(1) can handle.
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