Why -p0 format patches?

[Michael Ellerman]

On Mon, 11 Jul 2005 17:56, Martin Pool wrote:
> On 11 Jul 2005, Michael Ellerman <michael at ellerman.id.au> wrote:
> > Just a query, what was the reasoning behind "bzr diff" producing -p0
> > patches rather than -p1 patches? Because CVS/svn/.. do it?
>
> It's a bit arbitrary; I think some people in the early days preferred
> it.  Is there any stronger reason than personal preference for one or
> the other?

Not really. Except that -p1 is Linus' personal perference, so there's a lot of 
kernel people who are used to that format.

> > +++ TARGETbzrlib/commands.py
>
> I thought that was just a bug?  If we're going to have prefixes it'd
> definitely be better to use -p1.

Agreed.

cheers

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