Bug 307449

Summary: Create Patch should use .patch file extension by default
Product: [Eclipse Project] Platform Reporter: Ralf Ebert <ralf>
Component: TeamAssignee: Platform Team Inbox <platform-team-inbox>
Status: NEW --- QA Contact:
Severity: normal    
Priority: P3 CC: remy.suen
Version: 3.6   
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Correctly named patch to name patches correctly
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Description Ralf Ebert CLA 2010-03-29 16:53:12 EDT 
Naming patches "something.patch" makes them more recognizable by tools that can work with patches, the create patch wizard should therefore propose this file extension by default.
Comment 1 Ralf Ebert CLA 2010-03-29 16:54:15 EDT 
Created attachment 163329 [details]
Correctly named patch to name patches correctly
Comment 2 Ralf Ebert CLA 2010-03-29 17:18:49 EDT 
Created attachment 163331 [details]
307449.patch

Also changed default patch name to untitled.patch
Comment 3 Szymon Brandys CLA 2010-03-30 04:13:29 EDT 
Thanks Ralf for the patch.
I think that 'Save as type' should also offer 'Text file' and '*.*' in addition to the 'Patch' type. 'Text file' should be the default. Moreover, to be consistent, we should do similar changes to the Apply Patch wizard and Apply Patch in Sync View. I'm suggesting to prepare a patch that covers all those cases.
Comment 4 Eclipse Webmaster CLA 2019-09-06 16:13:30 EDT 
This bug hasn't had any activity in quite some time. Maybe the problem got resolved, was a duplicate of something else, or became less pressing for some reason - or maybe it's still relevant but just hasn't been looked at yet.

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