Use Git patch format by default in Mercurial 3

Augie Fackler lists at durin42.com
Fri Feb 14 16:46:35 UTC 2014


On Fri, Feb 14, 2014 at 10:35 AM, anatoly techtonik <techtonik at gmail.com>wrote:

> >
> > 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.



Yup. Mercurial cares *extremely deeply* about backwards compatibility, more
so than most programming languages.
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