> On Oct 6, 2016, at 12:04 PM, Rainer Müller <rai...@macports.org> wrote: > > On 2016-10-06 13:56, Mojca Miklavec wrote: >> I don't care if we use *.diff or *.patch. Either is fine, but I would >> prefer if we would stick to one ending and try to be as consistent as >> we can be. > > Some statistics on consistency: > > $ find dports -name '*.diff' |wc -l > 4922 > $ find dports -name '*.patch' |wc -l > 1079 > $ find dports -name '*.diff' -exec basename {} \; |grep -c -v '^patch-' > 324 > > Especially when maintainers use patches from 'git format-patch' they > often end up with *.patch.
I'm not sure that we have to mandate one extension, but if we do, I would prefer ".patch", which I feel implies intent to modify, as opposed to merely describing a difference. "Did you just make that up? And aren't those just two sides of the same coin?" Correct on both counts, imaginary collaborator. vq _______________________________________________ macports-dev mailing list macports-dev@lists.macosforge.org https://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo/macports-dev