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bug#35420: Support git in ediff-patch-file
From: |
Robert Pluim |
Subject: |
bug#35420: Support git in ediff-patch-file |
Date: |
Thu, 25 Apr 2019 11:12:45 +0200 |
>>>>> On Thu, 25 Apr 2019 11:46:33 +0300, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> said:
>> From: Robert Pluim <rpluim@gmail.com> Cc: Juri Linkov
>> <juri@linkov.net>, 35420@debbugs.gnu.org Date: Thu, 25 Apr 2019
>> 09:53:16 +0200
>>
>> You get i/, w/ and/or c/ when you run 'git diff' inside your
>> working tree, depending on whether the changed file is in the
>> 'i'ndex, 'w'orking tree, or 'c'ache (also known as the staging
>> area). Things like 'git format-patch' and 'git show' use a/ and
>> b/ by default.
>>
>> And of course, since this is git, you can tell it to use other
>> prefixes using '--src-prefix' and '--dst-prefix'.
Eli> Thanks. I guess we'd like to support these use cases as
Eli> well, right?
Yes, that would be a good improvement.
Eli> Also, what's the situation with hg? Is it similar?
I donʼt use hg, but based on a quick test it uses a/ and b/
Robert