[MERGE] Changed diff filename from *.diff to *_diff.txt to make it easier to open on Windows.

Colin D Bennett colin at gibibit.com
Sun Feb 22 21:01:15 GMT 2009


On Sun, 22 Feb 2009 14:59:19 -0500
Doug Lee <dgl at dlee.org> wrote:

> This is my first public merge request; please help me do it better
> next time if such correction is warranted...  I'm afraid I was behind
> on this list and just noticed bzr-email-notify today, so pardon if
> this is obsolete.
> 
> Rationale for request:  Windows email clients don't by default know
> how to open .diff files, but .txt files work just fine.

Is the MIME type getting set correctly in the attachment header?  The
correct MIME type is “text/x-diff” unless I'm mistaken.  Your email
client should treat this as a text file for the purposes of viewing or
opening it.

IMO saving diffs as “.txt” files is not a great thing.

Regards,
Colin
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