Use Git patch format by default in Mercurial 3

[Pierre-Yves David]

On 02/14/2014 07:35 AM, anatoly techtonik wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 13, 2014 at 8:24 PM, Matt Mackall <mpm at selenic.com> wrote:
>> On Thu, 2014-02-13 at 22:06 +0300, anatoly techtonik wrote:
>>> On Thu, Feb 13, 2014 at 9:41 PM, Tony Mechelynck
>>> <antoine.mechelynck at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> On 13/02/14 16:03, anatoly techtonik wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Hi again,
>>>>>
>>>>> It is an annoyance to remember about git format
>>>>> every time, and in particular MQ doesn't preserve
>>>>> file modes because of that.
>>>>>
>>>>> It would be a great relief to see next major HG
>>>>> version coming with extended patch format
>>>>> support with git=False option.
>>>>>
>>>>> I am on Windows, I need to make file executable
>>>>> and I don't see a way to do this. I thought that
>>>>> MQ will help, but it doesn't.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> There is a config setting for that.
>>>
>>> Yes. I mentioned it. However, this request is to make it
>>> to default for Mercurial 3, because current default
>>> results in information loss for unaware users.
>>
>> Believe it or not, your proposal is not new. Please familiarize yourself
>> with the list archives and maybe spend a few hours (weeks?) reading the
>> last 8 years of discussion on this topic so we don't have to re-enter it
>> yet again on the ground floor.
>
> Ok. To sum up - even the major versions is not the reason to break things.

There is major version.

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Pierre-Yves David