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

Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de> Thu, 01 November 2018 15:17 UTC

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Subject: Re: [media-types] Mime type for patch files?
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On 2018-11-01 16:06, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:
> [Henrik Andersson]
>> In short, don't use the "x-" prefix. And don't use the "x." prefix
>> either. Those explicitly mean "not registered". The mentioned exception
>> is a sad reality that only came to pass because of the insane costs to
>> change it. There are no such costs here.
> 
> So, if I understand you correctly, your recommendation is to use
> text/diff or text/patch as the official registered MIME type?  I am all
> for a identifier with out the "x-" prefix. :-)
> 
> I notice from my collection that text/x-diff have 27% higher use than
> text/x-patch.  If we are moving to a different identifier, I guess it do
> not really matter which one of the old ones were most "popular". :)

Make sure you have a well-defined payload format before discussing 
naming. Note that this also means thinking about character encoding...

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