On Sun, Jul 05, 2009 at 02:54:33PM +0200, Michael Banck wrote: > On Sun, Jul 05, 2009 at 02:32:57PM +0200, Guido Günther wrote: > > We can of course convert from and to a DEP#3 compatible format but why > > not use something the rest of world uses for exchanging patches? > > It is not what the rest of the world uses; it is just what git uses. It's what's used in emails when exchanging patches, it's not at all git specific. It's just that git has a convenient way to generate these. We're looking into using an RFC 2822 style format, why not something that can be directly used as a mail message. It makes exchanging patches simpler.
> I am concerned that just allowing to use git-format-patch will result in > people not making an effort to markup other metadata in DEP#3 format, > like bug numbers or reviewers and leave those as free-form in the body. We can have Forwarded:, Origin:, Received-by: in this format as well, just like Signed-off-by: or Reviewed-by: or Thanks:. Cheers, -- Guido -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
