Subject: Re: [change request] pattern for patch filenames
To: Alan Barrett <apb@cequrux.com>
From: grant beattie <grant@NetBSD.org>
List: tech-pkg
Date: 06/29/2004 17:50:31
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On Tue, Jun 29, 2004 at 09:46:07AM +0200, Alan Barrett wrote:

> Roland Illig wrote:
> > With this change we could name the patch files after the files they=20
> > patch ("patch-src_inode_c"), not with some arbitrarily chosen number=20
> > ("patch-af").
>=20
> BTW, FreeBSD names their patches like "patch-src::inode.c", using "::"
> as a directory separator.

this isn't a good choice because filenames on Windows file systems
can't contain the colon character.

grant.


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