Yann Dirson <ydirson@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: > ... Commands > for saving/mailing patches could issue a bold warning if the user > specifies the for-human-viewing flag. If it is a warning to the user who produces the patch, and not but a warning in the patch text for the user who receives it, it is not useful. > I was talking about exchanging patches with the non-git part of the > world. Renaming patch needs manual massaging if you want to use GNU patch and that is not a new issue. People know that. The problem is in your example output were that it would break _existing git tools_ with a backward incompatible change, when you did not have to. That's the difference. -- 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