Lobbying for -p1 diffs

[Wouter van Heyst]

On Wed, Mar 01, 2006 at 01:09:38AM +1100, Michael Ellerman wrote:
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> > Hmm, will branch nick work with "Aaron's integration" type nicks?
> > +1 on using -p1, just need to figure out sensible labels.
> 
> You're right, I forgot you could set branch nick to something
> arbitrary. With a nick like that it definitely wouldn't work, or at
> least you might be able to make patch accept it with appopriate
> escapes, but it'd look horrible, so that'd suck.
> 
> For the moment we can just use a/ b/ or orig/ mod/, the point is to
> make it -p1 before 0.8, we can retrofit nicks later if we can work out
> how to do it nicely.

Fair enough.

Wouter van Heyst