On 4/23/13 14:09 , Gianfranco Costamagna wrote:
> Sorry Oliver, what about sending patches in the debian format?
> I use dpkg-source for creating them, but I can use format patch too.

Regular patches don't contain any meta data, like author and datetime
information. git format-patch (followed by git am) does. It's somewhat
important to be able to attribute a given commit/patch to the original
author if, say, in a year from now someone needs additional information
about its content/implementation. You want to be able to ask the patch's
original author about it.


Oliver

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