Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S268536AbUI3D0G (ORCPT ); Wed, 29 Sep 2004 23:26:06 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S268648AbUI3D0G (ORCPT ); Wed, 29 Sep 2004 23:26:06 -0400 Received: from omx3-ext.sgi.com ([192.48.171.20]:22733 "EHLO omx3.sgi.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S268536AbUI3D0C (ORCPT ); Wed, 29 Sep 2004 23:26:02 -0400 Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2004 20:24:28 -0700 From: Paul Jackson To: george@mvista.com Cc: juhl-lkml@dif.dk, clameter@sgi.com, drepper@redhat.com, johnstul@us.ibm.com, Ulrich.Windl@rz.uni-regensburg.de, jbarnes@sgi.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, libc-alpha@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: patches inline in mail Message-Id: <20040929202428.19bdabae.pj@sgi.com> In-Reply-To: <415B4FEE.2000209@mvista.com> References: <4154F349.1090408@redhat.com> <41550B77.1070604@redhat.com> <4159B920.3040802@redhat.com> <415AF4C3.1040808@mvista.com> <415B0C9E.5060000@mvista.com> <415B4FEE.2000209@mvista.com> Organization: SGI X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.12 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1493 Lines: 37 George wrote: > Still, I have been bitten too many times by misshandled white space > to trust pure inlineing. I use a script to send any patches I care much about, rather than my email client. The script sends the file directly to my SMTP server. Especially when sending more than one related patch, I find it much more accurate to prepare the small text file indicating To, Cc, Bcc, Subject, local-patch-pathname for each patch in the set at my leisure, in my text editor, until it all looks right, then issue a single command to send it all off. Email clients, especially the gui ones I'm fond of, are not well suited to such work. There are various such 'patch-bomb' scripts out there - mine is available at: http://www.speakeasy.org/~pj99/sgi/sendpatchset See the embedded Usage string for documentation. The script checks out everything it can, including file paths and email addresses (by verifying them with the SMTP server) before it sends anything, further increasing the chance that if something is sent, it's all sent and correctly so. -- I won't rest till it's the best ... Programmer, Linux Scalability Paul Jackson 1.650.933.1373 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/