Re: dpatch -> quilt
Pierre Habouzit <madcoder@debian.org> writes:
> Though the "need" for --not-timestamps is really important when you
> refresh a whole patch series, and don't want spurious timestamps changes
> generating useless changes in your $SCM, and I do use it for this very
> reason.
Yes. Please use --no-timestamps so that interdiffs are easier to review.
Otherwise, diff introduces spurious changes every time you refresh a diff.
The information encoded in the timestamps really isn't useful.
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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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