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

Mitar <mmitar@gmail.com> Wed, 30 October 2019 00:39 UTC

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Date: Tue, 29 Oct 2019 17:38:57 -0700
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Subject: Re: [media-types] Mime type for patch files?
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Hi!

On Tue, Oct 29, 2019 at 1:40 PM Petter Reinholdtsen <pere@hungry.com> wrote:
> Aha.  Where can we see what you submitted?

I do not think it is public. :-( Or at least I do not know how to access it.

> I do not believe I have seen
> that MIME type used for diffs anywhere.  Where is it used?

Yes, it is a brand new. Because if we want to standardize it, we
should use a standard tree. We cannot just standardize a private one
(especially because they all use obsolete x- prefix).

Now, I picked a standard tree and not vendor tree even if there is no
official standard associated with it, and I hope it will go through
and that some IETF working group will approve it. Otherwise we will
have to resubmit it as text/vnd.unified-diff which looks not as nice,
especially for something so common as unified diff.


Mitar

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