svn commit: r363361 - in head/editors/fte: . files

Alexey Dokuchaev danfe at FreeBSD.org
Wed Jul 30 07:51:59 UTC 2014


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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