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Re: [media-types] Mime type for patch files?

Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de> Thu, 01 November 2018 10:05 UTC

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To: Clemens Ladisch <clemens@ladisch.de>, media-types@ietf.org
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From: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
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Subject: Re: [media-types] Mime type for patch files?
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On 2018-11-01 09:58, Clemens Ladisch wrote:
> Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:
>> I have no idea how to identify the tool maintainers which currently
>> recognize text/x-{patch,diff}.  Perhaps at least the maintainers of
>> http://www.gnu.org/software/diffutils/ and
>> http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/patch/ are relevant contributors to
>> such discussion?  They do not really use or recognice MIME types, being
>> command line tools, but are responsible for the typical producer and
>> consumer of these files.
> 
> Pretty much all version control systems can generate patches.  However,
> the default output typcially does not rely on MIME type detection but
> uses custom formatting (in a GUI, or in HTML).  As far as I can see,
> the only place where the MIME type might matter are e-mail attachments.
> ...

FWIW, it would also be interesting for use as a payload in an HTTP PATCH 
request (see https://greenbytes.de/tech/webdav/rfc5789.html) - as far as 
I recall the big challenge here is not the label but to actually find a 
well-documented and interoperable patch format.

Best regards, Julian

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