changing commit comments

[Paul Moore]

On 15/07/2008, Ted Pavlic <ted at tedpavlic.com> wrote:
> The downside to using gitdiff is that you cannot use those patch files
> with standard UNIX patch. However, if you are using MQ/Mercurial as your
> interface to patches, then that's not a problem.

I believe that git-style patches are readable by conventional patch
programs, as long as the change doesn't include binaries or permission
changes. So basically, if you don't *need* git diff, it does no harm
to use it anyway. If you do need it, then conventional patches are no
use.

Paul.