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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>
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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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