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