From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
To: "Horst H. von Brand" <vonbrand@inf.utfsm.cl>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Combined diff format documentation
Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2006 20:04:30 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7vmz7jkcap.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200610260148.k9Q1mr99007511@laptop13.inf.utfsm.cl> (Horst H. von Brand's message of "Wed, 25 Oct 2006 22:48:53 -0300")
"Horst H. von Brand" <vonbrand@inf.utfsm.cl> writes:
>> Correct. This was done to prevent people from accidentally
>> feeding it to "patch -p1". In other words, we wanted to make it
>> so obvious that it is _not_ a patch.
>
> It isn't, really... perhaps it should be made /more/ obvious (not use @ but
> e.g. &, ...)?
Eh, sorry, what I meant was "obvious to the tool", so "patch"
would take notice.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-10-26 3:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-10-25 22:22 Combined diff format documentation Jakub Narebski
2006-10-25 22:40 ` Junio C Hamano
2006-10-25 22:58 ` Jakub Narebski
2006-10-25 23:14 ` Junio C Hamano
2006-10-25 23:24 ` Junio C Hamano
2006-10-25 23:45 ` Jakub Narebski
2006-10-26 1:48 ` Horst H. von Brand
2006-10-26 3:04 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2006-10-26 3:44 ` [PATCH] diff-format.txt: Combined diff format documentation supplement Jakub Narebski
2006-10-26 6:15 ` Junio C Hamano
2006-10-26 7:05 ` Junio C Hamano
2006-10-26 7:10 ` Junio C Hamano
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