On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 08:22:19PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote: > I do not know if I like the end result, but here is a patch to make the > traditional a/ and b/ prefix more mnemonic. Hmm. Something deep in my gut doesn't like this, just because I like the fact that no matter how I prepare a diff (and I do tend to do it different ways and post to the mailing list) it always ends up the same. For example, I sometimes "hand-generate" patch messages meant to be applied by git-am by doing a diff between the working tree and index and pasting the result into an email. It just feels a bit wrong for it not to be the exact output I would get from commiting and running format-patch. And yes, obviously the prefix should be thrown away by am (and any sane tools), so it shouldn't matter. So I don't think there is a technical reason not to do so. But one of the things I have always liked about git is that no matter how I prepare content, the output is always the same. But maybe this is just me being a curmudgeonly old-timer. Feel free to ignore. -Peff -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
