Making it visible, and easier to maintain going forward. Also it's possibly easier to tell persuade someone to "install <this branch on the official repository>" than to "<rebuild with this patch>".
Роман Донченко wrote on Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 00:51:28 +0400: > Well, I could, but what would be the point? > > Daniel Shahaf <d...@daniel.shahaf.name> писал в своём письме Mon, 13 > Aug 2012 09:54:14 +0400: > > >If nothing else, feel free to at least create a feature branch off of > >trunk and commit the patch there. > > > >http://subversion.apache.org/docs/community-guide/general.html#lightweight-branches > > > >Gavin Baumanis wrote on Mon, Aug 13, 2012 at 11:06:48 +1000: > >>Ping. > >>This message has received no comments. > >> > >> > >> > >>-----Original Message----- > >>From: Роман Донченко [mailto:d...@corrigendum.ru] > >>Sent: Monday, 6 August 2012 09:19 > >>To: dev@subversion.apache.org > >>Subject: [PATCH] Don't strip Content-Type in .po files on Windows > >> > >>Greetings, > >> > >>I submitted this patch a couple of years ago, but it didn't get > >>much attention. I still think it's relevant, so I'll try again. > >> > >>[[[ > >>On Windows, don't strip the Content-Type field from .po files > >>during their compilation.