This applies to the draft v1.5.0 release notes in 'todo' branch and
summarizes the changes my patches to format-patch bring in.
I am neutral about changing the default suffix from .txt to .patch;
comments?
diff --git a/v1.5.0.txt b/v1.5.0.txt
index 2fccf8e..6a9a8d6 100644
--- a/v1.5.0.txt
+++ b/v1.5.0.txt
@@ -268,6 +268,21 @@ Updates in v1.5.0 since v1.4.4 series
excuse us for this very minor one-time inconvenience.
+* e-mailed patches
+
+ - See the above I18n section.
+
+ - git-format-patch now enables --binary without being asked.
+ git-am does _not_ default to it, as sending binary patch via
+ e-mail is unusual and is harder to review than textual
+ patches and it is prudent to require the person who is
+ applying the patch to explicitly ask for it.
+
+ - The default suffix for git-format-patch output is now ".patch",
+ not ".txt". This can be changed with --suffix=.txt option,
+ or "format.suffix = .txt" in the configuration.
+
+
* Foreign SCM interfaces
- git-svn now requires the Perl SVN:: libraries, the
-
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