Re: [Freeciv-Dev] Please consider posting patches as .diff instead of .patch

2009-09-04 Thread Egor Vyscrebentsov
Good day! 2009/9/3 Marko Lindqvist wrote: I have noticed that more and more people name their patches as .patch. It would be easier for me if they were named .diff. Not a problem, but why? (Is it an issue with mailer, system, mailman, whatever else?) Also, .patch looks like standard in

Re: [Freeciv-Dev] Please consider posting patches as .diff instead of .patch

2009-09-04 Thread Bernd Jendrissek
On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 10:56 PM, Matthias Pfafferodtmatthias.pfaffer...@mapfa.de wrote: I'm using git and it (and the tools build around it) create the patches in this form. For these patches you can do git config format.suffix .diff I can rename the patches to *.diff, but I don't know how to

[Freeciv-Dev] Please consider posting patches as .diff instead of .patch

2009-09-02 Thread Marko Lindqvist
I have noticed that more and more people name their patches as .patch. It would be easier for me if they were named .diff. And while I'm at it, I also prefer patches that are relative to parent dir of freeciv = ones that I can apply as patch -u -p1 -d freeciv.src patch.diff. - ML