Yann Dirson <ydirson@altern.org> writes:

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> ...  Commands
> for saving/mailing patches could issue a bold warning if the user
> specifies the for-human-viewing flag.

If it is a warning to the user who produces the patch, and not but a
warning in the patch text for the user who receives it, it is not useful.

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> I was talking about exchanging patches with the non-git part of the
> world.

Renaming patch needs manual massaging if you want to use GNU patch and
that is not a new issue.  People know that.

The problem is in your example output were that it would break _existing
git tools_ with a backward incompatible change, when you did not have to.
That's the difference.

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