+1 for removing --no-prefix.

On Wed, May 6, 2015 at 3:05 PM, amareshwarisr . <[email protected]>
wrote:

> Hi,
>
> As documented at
> http://lens.incubator.apache.org/developer/contribute.html#Generating_patch
> ,
> we said we will use git diff --no-prefix for generating patch and use git
> apply -p0 for applying. Starting this discussion if we want to remove that
> going forward.
>
> There are two reasons why i think we should remove it.
>
>    1. They are not the default way to generate patch on git.
>    2. Review board is not accepting patches generated with --no-prefix to
>    be uploaded.
>
> The only reason we had no-prefix was to not include a/ b/ in the paths
> sothat it looks clean.
>
> If people are fine with removing --no-prefix, I can create a follow up jira
> for updating contributor doc.
>
> Thoughts?
>
> Thanks
> Amareshwari
>

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