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Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2002 14:59:45 -0500
From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@mandrakesoft.com>
Organization: MandrakeSoft
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Subject: Re: Why not "attach" patches?
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Some implementation-specific details people may find useful:

* For 4.xx versions of Netscape Mail, with standard mime types/prefs,
sending patches by MIME attachment results in a readable text/plain
message.

* The best way to mail patches is to pipe a header, patch description,
and contents to "/usr/sbin/sendmail -t" or some other MTA.  When I spam
Linus or Marcelo with patches, my process looks like this:

1) create outgoing patches
2) change e-mail header template to reflect current kernel version
3) put template and blank space at top of each patch
4) "vi *.patch", manually insert descriptions and CC list from
MAINTAINERS
5) review each patch and description once again :)
6) pipe *.patch individually through "/usr/sbin/sendmail -t"

Here is the mail header template I use.  Sendmail is smart and will
insert all other headers like message-id and date, since they are not
present.  When using another MTA, make sure yours does this too.

> [jgarzik@rum g]$ cat ~/info/mail.linus
> From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik at mandrakesoft.com>
> BCC: jgarzik at mandrakesoft.com
> To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds at transmeta.com>
> CC: akpm at zip.com.au, davem at redhat.com
> Subject: PATCH 2.5.2.9: net drvr 
> 

As always, read Documentation/SubmittingPatches.  That's what it's there
for.

-- 
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