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From: "Martin Eriksson" <nitrax@giron.wox.org>
To: "Kent Borg" <kentborg@borg.org>
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Subject: Re: Why not "attach" patches?
Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2002 20:38:03 +0100
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Kent Borg" <kentborg@borg.org>
To: "Martin Eriksson" <nitrax@giron.wox.org>
Cc: <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Sent: Tuesday, January 15, 2002 6:57 PM
Subject: Re: Why not "attach" patches?


> On Tue, Jan 15, 2002 at 06:44:58PM +0100, 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.
>
> It is nice to have the patch to look at when looking at the mail, and
> it is nice to have the mail to look at when looking at the patch.
>
> One of the features of patch is that you can save the whole patch
> e-mail to a file and use it directly; patch is willing to skip over
> all the e-mail headers and regular looking text until it sees
> something that looks like a patch.  Handy, huh?

Aaah.. DOH! That was just what was lurking in the back of my head, but the
thinking part of the brain didn't quite grasp it. Of course "patch" will
skip "no-patch" text instead of crapping out. Hell, if I'd designed the
"patch" program that behaviour would have been one of the first things to
implement.

Sorry for the LKML spam then =) but ain't it nice with one of these
"easy-to-answer" mails from time to time...?

/Martin Eriksson

PS. I really hate OE. Anyone care to recommend THE Windoze Mail+News reader
program, with EXTREME filtering capabilities AND not looking like crap?

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