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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Yann Dirson <ydirson@altern.org>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] Introduce rename factorization in diffcore.
Date: Fri, 07 Nov 2008 16:47:46 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7vd4h7dowd.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20081108002952.GC4030@nan92-1-81-57-214-146.fbx.proxad.net> (Yann Dirson's message of "Sat, 8 Nov 2008 01:29:52 +0100")

Yann Dirson <ydirson@altern.org> writes:

> ...  Commands
> for saving/mailing patches could issue a bold warning if the user
> specifies the for-human-viewing flag.

If it is a warning to the user who produces the patch, and not but a
warning in the patch text for the user who receives it, it is not useful.

> I was talking about exchanging patches with the non-git part of the
> world.

Renaming patch needs manual massaging if you want to use GNU patch and
that is not a new issue.  People know that.

The problem is in your example output were that it would break _existing
git tools_ with a backward incompatible change, when you did not have to.
That's the difference.

  reply	other threads:[~2008-11-08  0:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-11-01 22:03 [PATCH v3 0/3] Detection of directory renames Yann Dirson
2008-11-01 22:03 ` [PATCH 1/3] Fix error in diff_filepair::status documentation Yann Dirson
2008-11-02  6:31   ` Junio C Hamano
2008-11-01 22:03 ` [PATCH 2/3] Introduce rename factorization in diffcore Yann Dirson
2008-11-07  1:10   ` Junio C Hamano
2008-11-07 19:39     ` Yann Dirson
2008-11-07 20:19       ` Junio C Hamano
2008-11-07 20:39         ` Yann Dirson
2008-11-07 21:11           ` Junio C Hamano
2008-11-07 22:12             ` Yann Dirson
2008-11-07 23:43               ` Junio C Hamano
2008-11-08  0:29                 ` Yann Dirson
2008-11-08  0:47                   ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2008-11-08  0:50                     ` Yann Dirson
2008-11-01 22:03 ` [PATCH 3/3] Add testcases for the --factorize-renames diffcore flag Yann Dirson

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