Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2014 07:51:58 +0000 From: Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@FreeBSD.org> To: marino@freebsd.org Cc: svn-ports-head@freebsd.org, Max Brazhnikov <makc@freebsd.org>, svn-ports-all@freebsd.org, William Grzybowski <wg@freebsd.org>, ports-committers@freebsd.org, Mathieu Arnold <mat@FreeBSD.org>, Adam Weinberger <adamw@adamw.org> Subject: Re: svn commit: r363361 - in head/editors/fte: . files Message-ID: <20140730075158.GB14983@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <53D8A2BB.7090704@marino.st> References: <201407291646.s6TGkjHH090335@svn.freebsd.org> <41D25BC1-AC62-4280-A342-8A2BDD84B1E0@adamw.org> <20140730070412.GA97692@FreeBSD.org> <3898057.T8DsoXnEEp@mercury.ph.man.ac.uk> <53D89EBF.4080805@marino.st> <2D24420529C9ECAEABB9A791@atuin.in.mat.cc> <53D8A2BB.7090704@marino.st>
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On Wed, Jul 30, 2014 at 09:46:03AM +0200, John Marino wrote: > I disagree, there is no convention. Whoever created makepatch attempted > to create a defacto convention that most people don't like (as evidence > that patches not created by makepatch don't use it but rather the more > conventional* single underscore. Right. Single underscore is sufficient in most cases; if there are file names you need to patch that themselves contain underscores, there are dash|minus (-) and even plus (+) characters available for nice fallback, keeping the readability and avoiding confusion. > Take a vote. I'd bet the majority of people do not like "__" not just > "someone". +1. ./danfe
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