Subject: Re: [RFC PATCHv2 1/2] am: add gitk patch format

From: Junio C Hamano <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 03 Sep 2014 16:19:56 -0700

Chris Packham <[email-masked]> writes:

> Patches created using gitk's "write commit to file" functionality (which
> uses 'git diff-tree -p --pretty' under the hood) need some massaging in
> order to apply cleanly.

Shouldn't that output routine be the one to be corrected, then?  We
really do not need yet another format to express the same thing,
especially from the same suite of programs.