Re: Combined diff format documentation

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Junio C Hamano <junkio@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> Jakub Narebski <jnareb@xxxxxxxxx> writes:

[...]

> > 5. Hunk header is also modified: in ordinary diff we have
> > ...
> >    It might be not obvoious that we have (number of parents + 1) '@'
> >    characters in chunk header for combined dif format.

> 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. &, ...)?
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