Matej Cepl added the comment: On Tue, 2014-02-11 at 16:52 +0000, Terry J. Reedy wrote: > Both patches have an unusual email section at the top that is not > needed for this tracker, and which I have not seen here before. Is this > something idiosyncratic to git?
Yes, it is output of git-format-patch(1) ... the advantage against the plain diff is that it all commit's metadata are included so it can be fully restored with git-am(1). It is a normal way how commits are sent around. > I believe I have read elsewhere the recommendation to use 404 to avoid > leading info. So taking that into account seems like a good idea. But I > am not sure what the manual claims about urllib.request and I won't > make the decision about which versions to apply a patch to. Well, I would apply it at least to the latest py2k (aka 2.7.7?) and the latest py3k (3.3.*, 3.4.next). Matěj ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue19494> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
