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Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2002 18:52:55 +0100
From: Martin Dalecki <dalecki@evision-ventures.com>
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To: Martin Eriksson <nitrax@giron.wox.org>
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Subject: Re: Why not "attach" patches?
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Martin Eriksson wrote:

>Why do many of you not _attach_ patches instead of merging them with the
>mail? It's so much cleaner and easier to have a "xxx-yyy.patch" file
>attached to the mail which can be saved in an appropriate directory. Also,
>the whitespace is always retained that way.
>
>OTOH I don't have very deep knowledge of "diff" and "patch", so maybe I have
>missed something here...
>
Don't worry - nothign prevents proper attached patches from beeing 
applied - the FAQ is only a bit
zealous on this ;-)



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