Re: [PATCH] fmt-patch: understand old <his> notation

Johannes Schindelin [off-list ref] writes:

No, it is not too late. I did this patch only to prevent cluttering my 
directory with millions of patches, only because I forgot _again_ to type 
the two dots.

I did that as well, and the thing is, this is _so_ fast that
when I noticed and typed ^C, it already has done 400 or so
commits starting from the epoch (which was empty by the way).

I am already working on adjusting in-tree format-patch users not
to use <his> syntax but to use <his>.. syntax, so this should not
be a problem either way.

quoted

Also we probably would want to default the diff options to show
the root commit diff (rev.show_root_diff).

I gather this is needed for git-am/git-rebase to continue working?

No, but people want to export the whole history sometimes.