Re: [PATCH/POLL] git-format-patch: the default suffix is now .patch, not .txt

From: Alexandre Julliard <julliard@winehq.org>
Date: 2007-01-18 20:57:17
"Alex Riesen" <raa.lkml@gmail.com> writes:

> Also, how many mail clients know that .patch is actually
> a text and not application/binary? It'll make patch
> reviewing harder for some (not sure if I'd like a review
> of such a person, though).

OTOH such mail clients usually also think they can freely reformat
text files, leading to unusable patches.  A .patch extension would
help avoid that type of breakage, so I think it's a good idea.

-- 
Alexandre Julliard
julliard@winehq.org
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Received on Thu Jan 18 20:58:07 2007

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