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

Adrian Wilkins adrian.wilkins at gmail.com
Mon Feb 23 10:34:31 GMT 2009


> From: Doug Lee <dgl at dlee.org>
> Subject: [MERGE] Changed diff filename from *.diff to *_diff.txt to
> 	make it	easier to open on Windows.
> To: bazaar <bazaar at lists.canonical.com>
> Message-ID: <20090222195919.GC34180 at mini.local>
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> 
> 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 this is obsolete.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.
> 

-1

Please, no. "By default", true, but it's the work of a few seconds to
configure it otherwise. My default patch viewer (Notepad2) has a nice
coloured mode for viewing universal diff, but without a .diff or .patch
extension, it won't use it.





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