On Friday, December 31, 2010 02:02:40 Robin H. Johnson wrote: > On Fri, Dec 31, 2010 at 12:17:26AM -0500, Mike Frysinger wrote: > > http://dev.gentoo.org/~vapier/clean-patches > > Nice document. Just two contradictory points that I've noticed been > useful: > 1. Sometimes I've been given patches without information as to which > version they apply to. The timestamp on the --- line was critical to > tracing that, because it matched the source timestamp in the SCM.
i wouldnt say it's contradictory ... if my advice was followed, this sleuthing wouldnt have been necessary, and thus the timestamp is still useless. > 2. The .orig suffix on the --- line has been very useful in seeing that > somebody accidentally reversed the patch when generating it. meh. i think this is minor/rare enough to ignore. > One additional request: Using RFC822-style headers for patch text data. i'll add these tips inline with the other stuff -mike
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