From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jeff King Subject: Re: Call Me Gitless Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2008 13:52:20 -0400 Message-ID: <20080819175220.GA10142@coredump.intra.peff.net> References: <4b6f054f0808171702q10d89dfey98afa65634d26e91@mail.gmail.com> <7vfxp2m5w8.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> <7vtzdiklbw.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> <7vy72tit90.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Cc: Daniel Barkalow , Git Mailing List To: Junio C Hamano X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Tue Aug 19 19:53:47 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1KVVOr-0001Er-FB for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Tue, 19 Aug 2008 19:53:45 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753421AbYHSRwX (ORCPT ); Tue, 19 Aug 2008 13:52:23 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752858AbYHSRwX (ORCPT ); Tue, 19 Aug 2008 13:52:23 -0400 Received: from peff.net ([208.65.91.99]:3259 "EHLO peff.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752805AbYHSRwW (ORCPT ); Tue, 19 Aug 2008 13:52:22 -0400 Received: (qmail 2870 invoked by uid 111); 19 Aug 2008 17:52:21 -0000 Received: from coredump.intra.peff.net (HELO coredump.intra.peff.net) (10.0.0.2) by peff.net (qpsmtpd/0.32) with SMTP; Tue, 19 Aug 2008 13:52:21 -0400 Received: by coredump.intra.peff.net (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Tue, 19 Aug 2008 13:52:20 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <7vy72tit90.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 08:22:19PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote: > I do not know if I like the end result, but here is a patch to make the > traditional a/ and b/ prefix more mnemonic. Hmm. Something deep in my gut doesn't like this, just because I like the fact that no matter how I prepare a diff (and I do tend to do it different ways and post to the mailing list) it always ends up the same. For example, I sometimes "hand-generate" patch messages meant to be applied by git-am by doing a diff between the working tree and index and pasting the result into an email. It just feels a bit wrong for it not to be the exact output I would get from commiting and running format-patch. And yes, obviously the prefix should be thrown away by am (and any sane tools), so it shouldn't matter. So I don't think there is a technical reason not to do so. But one of the things I have always liked about git is that no matter how I prepare content, the output is always the same. But maybe this is just me being a curmudgeonly old-timer. Feel free to ignore. -Peff