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[John Arbash Meinel]

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Aaron Bentley wrote:
> Eugene Wee wrote:
>> Contributors are recommended to have a checkout of their mainline and
>> then have their own working branch. Currently, contributors are told to
>> create patches to be sent to the maintainers using something along the
>> lines of:
>> bzr bundle ../mainline > /tmp/name-that-tune.patch
> 
>> Would I be correct to say that the only change needed to this document
>> with respect to this recommendation would be to recommend:
>> bzr send ../mainline --output=/tmp/name-that-tune.patch
>> or
>> bzr send ../mainline -o /tmp/name-that-tune.patch
>> instead?
> 
> That's exactly right.
> 
> (Though I should add that, contrary to the document, bundles and merge
> directives are not 7-bit safe, for different reasons.  Still, attaching
> them to mail is fine, because mail clients tend to treat attachments
> with high-bit characters sanely.)
> 
> Aaron

Well, Evolution is one of the exceptions to that, unfortunately. I
believe Merge directives are a bit better at that. But certainly Jelmer
and Robert have generated quite a few bundles that were not directly
usable. (Though because bzrlib is all LF-only, it is safe to convert all
CRLF => LF).

John
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