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From: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag•fr>
To: Pascal Obry <pascal@obry•net>
Cc: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx•de>,
	Pascal Obry <pascal.obry@gmail•com>,
	git@vger•kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Teach diff machinery to display other prefixes than "a/" and "b/"
Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2007 18:02:43 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <vpqprx4uea4.fsf@bauges.imag.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4767F935.8060207@obry.net> (Pascal Obry's message of "Tue\, 18 Dec 2007 17\:45\:41 +0100")

Pascal Obry <pascal@obry•net> writes:

> Johannes Schindelin a écrit :
>> With the new option "--prefix=<prefix1>[:<prefix2>]" you can change
>> the shown prefix, or suppress it (by specifying the empty string).
>
> Why not ? But do you have a motivation for this change ? I mean why
> would you want to use a completely different prefix ?

It can make sense when you send the patch to someone who might not
know the context in which you wrote the patch, and who's not using
git. Then

--- your-version/foo.c
+++ my-version/foo.c

can be more expressive than a/ and b/. Some people like to have orig/
and mod/ also.

I can live without --prefix=... option, but doing it general at once
is a good idea, since adding this backward-compatibly on top of your
patch would mean having several redundant options.

-- 
Matthieu

      parent reply	other threads:[~2007-12-18 17:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-12-18 15:42 [PATCH] Add format-patch option --no-name-prefix Pascal Obry
2007-12-18 15:47 ` Pascal Obry
2007-12-18 15:54 ` Johannes Sixt
2007-12-18 15:59   ` Pascal Obry
2007-12-18 16:50     ` Linus Torvalds
2007-12-18 16:54       ` Pascal Obry
2007-12-18 17:06       ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-12-18 17:56         ` Pascal Obry
2007-12-18 18:56           ` [PATCH] Teach diff machinery to display other prefixes than "a/" and "b/" Johannes Schindelin
2007-12-18 19:03             ` Pascal Obry
2007-12-18 19:05             ` Linus Torvalds
2007-12-18 19:32               ` [PATCH v4] " Johannes Schindelin
2007-12-18 19:55                 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-12-18 20:07       ` [PATCH] Add format-patch option --no-name-prefix Junio C Hamano
2007-12-18 16:03 ` Andreas Ericsson
2007-12-18 16:11   ` Pascal Obry
2007-12-19  8:55     ` Andreas Ericsson
2007-12-19  9:21       ` Johannes Sixt
2007-12-18 16:21 ` [PATCH] Teach diff machinery to display other prefixes than "a/" and "b/" Johannes Schindelin
2007-12-18 16:45   ` Pascal Obry
2007-12-18 16:58     ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-12-18 17:02     ` Matthieu Moy [this message]

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