Why --git is not default in qrefresh?

[Patrick Mézard]

Marcin Kasperski a écrit :
> More seriously, it seems to me that the current situation is not quite
> perfect - it is reasonably easy to forget about --git in some qrefresh,
> loosing some valuable info on next qpop this way.

[...]

> 
> b) If not, then maybe it would be better to specify whether patches
>    are to be kept in git, or normal format, once and for good - via
>    per-repository setting.

[diff]
git = 1

should do it, at least with recent versions. I do not know when it was 
introduced.

Besides, qrefresh now detects --git option in existing patches and try 
to preserve it (at least in crew)

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Patrick Mézard