Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> writes: > Sure, but how do we send that message? I guess if we leave diff.noprefix > as it is and add a new format.patch (which preempts diff.noprefix only > for format-patch), then people will still accidentally send patches > without prefixes, but at least there is an "out" for the maintainer > receiving them to say "don't do that; please set format.patch". I actually was hoping that it would be enough if the message were "please unset diff.noprefix---in this project the convention is to use -p1 patches, so get used to seeing a/ and b/ prefixes". Even if a project wants -p0, the same approach would almost work, but it would need apply.pValue support to help the receiving end. But as we already concluded, let's cook the current 5-patch series in 'next' and see what happens. Thanks.
