Re: [PATCH - todo] Changes to e-mailed patch handling in v1.5.0

On Jan 18, 2007, at 3:18 AM, Andy Parkins wrote:

On Wednesday 2007 January 17 23:06, Junio C Hamano wrote:

quoted

I am neutral about changing the default suffix from .txt to .patch;
comments?

I'm in favour.  The extension indicates file type, and gives  
guidance on the
tool that can read it. Though .patch is stored in text it's more  
than that
(c.f. .html) - the text inside it has meaning beyond just the text.

To me, .txt would implies that the file format is in human-language  
format
(i.e. words, sentences, and paragraphs).

Ditto.

Also, Vim nicely detects the From <SHA1> line at the top and thinks  
that it's an mbox file.  With the patch extension it ignores that and  
gives me my diff coloring again.

~~ Brian