On 1/17/07, Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> wrote:
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> Hi,
>
> On Wed, 17 Jan 2007, Josh Boyer wrote:
>
> > Could we add an option to git-format-patch to use ".patch" as the file
> > suffix instead of ".txt"?  Something like the below?
> >
> > diff --git a/builtin-log.c b/builtin-log.c
> > index a59b4ac..4eb2d32 100644
> > --- a/builtin-log.c
> > +++ b/builtin-log.c
> > @@ -217,6 +217,7 @@ static int git_format_config(const char *var,
> > const char *value)
> >
> > static FILE *realstdout = NULL;
> > static const char *output_directory = NULL;
> > +static int psuffix = 0;
>
> Why not
>
>         static const char *file_extension = ".txt"
>
> Hmm?

Yes, that's better.  I was more going for "would something like this
option be accepted" to start with.  And I'm lazy, so the patch I wrote
was just an example for my specific use case :).

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> You'd call it with "--extension=.patch", and if you really want, you can
> make a config variable from it.

Good idea.  I'll try and get this done soon-ish.  I'm not very
familiar with the git code, so if someone beats me to it, I won't be
disappointed in the least ;)

josh
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