On Fri, Jan 24, 2025 at 09:37:46AM +0100, Petr Tesarik via Quilt-dev wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> following a recent SUSE-internal discussion about differences between
> patches produced by Git and patches produced by GNU diff, I wonder if
> we could allow git-diff as an alternative backend in quilt.
> 
> FWIW I am willing to send in patches, but I want to make sure they
> would be appreciated before I invest my time.

I know I would like this as I had a long-standing bug somewhere in the
stable queues that was tripped up by using gnu diff instead of git-diff.

I think the issue had to do with permission settings of files which
git-diff handled and GNU diff didn't?  Maybe, I can't quite recall it at
the moment but can dig it up if needed.

I remember trying to override the GNU diff usage in quilt, but couldn't
figure out how to get it to work, so yes, I would like this feature if
possible.

thanks,

greg k-h

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