[PATCH 4 of 8] ui: add diff.git to progressive mode

[Augie Fackler]

On Tue, Mar 31, 2015 at 06:39:25AM -0500, Matt Mackall wrote:
> On Sat, 2015-03-28 at 05:51 -0500, Mathias De Maré wrote:
> > # HG changeset patch
> > # User Mathias De Maré <mathias.demare at gmail.com>
> > # Date 1427229614 -3600
> > #      Tue Mar 24 21:40:14 2015 +0100
> > # Node ID 6b6bc41ccff75869e2f760ee595e564a0334060e
> > # Parent  ea4595977e4e882b7a355e7e7430989cee3ea000
> > ui: add diff.git to progressive mode
>
> Still needs a warning somewhere that this stops giving standard diffs,
> which means it's going to break lots of other tools that aren't
> git-diff-aware. Like patch(1), which has been apparently been lingering
> in state of partial git support for the last couple years.

So, I know patch(1) will drop information in a git-diff, but I've
never seen a git-diff that actually breaks patch(1)[0]. Do you have such
an example?

0: I have had git-diffs enabled for probably 2 weeks less than I've
been using Mercurial and pipe 'hg diff' to patch all the time. It's
never once been a problem, thus my confusion.

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