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

Gary van der Merwe garyvdm at gmail.com
Mon Feb 23 01:11:00 GMT 2009


On Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 9:59 PM, 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 this is obsolete.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.

Doug - A better solution would be to configure your Widows machines to
open .patch files in the editor/viewer of your choice. This can be
done by opening a Windows Explorer window, goto Tools, Options, File
Types, and then adding a item for .patch.

Regards,

Gary



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