Media type for output of POSIX "diff" utility
Julian Reschke
julian.reschke at gmx.de
Thu May 31 17:02:49 CEST 2007
Simon Josefsson wrote:
> I don't think you can register text/x-diff, can you? x-* is reserved
> for non-standard media types.
I guess an exception could be made if this would just document
widespread practice (if we wanted that).
> I think we should standardize either text/diff or text/patch. Even
> though the name 'diff' denotes the tool, 'patch' may be somewhat more
> descriptive, and there is existing deployment of text/x-patch. I'm not
> sure which to prefer.
Good point. "text/patch" makes more sense.
>>>> - Would it make sense to define individual types for the different
>>>> diff output formats (simple, context, ...), or would that be something
>>>> for a type parameter?
>>> I don't believe that doing either (i.e., neither type parameter nor
>>> multiple media types) will serve the goal of interoperability well.
>> In which case we'll have to explicitly list which flavors of diff
>> outputs the media type includes...
>
> Yes.
Best regards, Julian
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