From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Junio C Hamano Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] Introduce rename factorization in diffcore. Date: Fri, 07 Nov 2008 16:47:46 -0800 Message-ID: <7vd4h7dowd.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> References: <20081101215739.1116.59319.stgit@gandelf.nowhere.earth> <20081101220319.1116.50509.stgit@gandelf.nowhere.earth> <7vy6zwgx3i.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> <20081107193957.GI5158@nan92-1-81-57-214-146.fbx.proxad.net> <7v3ai3gugt.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> <20081107203952.GJ5158@nan92-1-81-57-214-146.fbx.proxad.net> <7vskq3fdgz.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> <20081107221224.GK5158@nan92-1-81-57-214-146.fbx.proxad.net> <7vhc6jdrvs.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> <20081108002952.GC4030@nan92-1-81-57-214-146.fbx.proxad.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: git@vger.kernel.org To: Yann Dirson X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Sat Nov 08 01:49:30 2008 connect(): Connection refused 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 1Kyc10-0003wG-J0 for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Sat, 08 Nov 2008 01:49:27 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752429AbYKHAsI (ORCPT ); Fri, 7 Nov 2008 19:48:08 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752403AbYKHAsH (ORCPT ); Fri, 7 Nov 2008 19:48:07 -0500 Received: from a-sasl-quonix.sasl.smtp.pobox.com ([208.72.237.25]:55899 "EHLO sasl.smtp.pobox.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752317AbYKHAsG (ORCPT ); Fri, 7 Nov 2008 19:48:06 -0500 Received: from localhost.localdomain (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by a-sasl-quonix.sasl.smtp.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2CCBB94879; Fri, 7 Nov 2008 19:48:03 -0500 (EST) Received: from pobox.com (unknown [68.225.240.211]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by a-sasl-quonix.sasl.smtp.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 9F16694877; Fri, 7 Nov 2008 19:47:52 -0500 (EST) 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") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/21.4 (gnu/linux) X-Pobox-Relay-ID: E61CCD42-AD2E-11DD-B06B-4F5276724C3F-77302942!a-sasl-quonix.pobox.com Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Yann Dirson 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.