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From: "David A. Wheeler" <dwheeler@dwheeler.com>
Subject: Re: [script] ge: export commits as patches
Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2005 22:34:43 -0400
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Forget my earlier "aspatch" proposal, that's a lousy name.

How about "mkpatch"?  Seems like a reasonable name for
a command that makes a patch.  GNU Arch uses that command name.
CVS & Subversion basically do this as part of "diff"
(which is another possibility).

--- David A. Wheeler