From: Daniel Phillips <phillips@bonn-fries.net>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
torvalds@transmeta.com (Linus Torvalds)
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Why not "attach" patches?
Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2002 17:15:05 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E16Sh69-0001iV-00@starship.berlin> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E16QZFv-0005wy-00@the-village.bc.nu>
In-Reply-To: <E16QZFv-0005wy-00@the-village.bc.nu>
On January 15, 2002 08:28 pm, Alan Cox wrote:
> > all tools will see as a normal body), I simply WILL NOT apply it unless
> > I have strong reason to. I usually wont even bother looking at it,
> > unless I expected something special from the sender.
> >
> > Really. Don't send patches as attachments.
>
> BTW: If you are sending me anything DO use attachments. Especially if you
> use any of the following, which seem to have some versions that mangle
> inline diffs
>
> Lotus Notes
> Pine
> Kmail
> [...]
Kmail's patch-mangling problems seem to be all gone in kmail 2.2+. The only
thing to be careful about is that word wrap should be off. Since I forgot to
turn it off a couple of times I now leave it permanently off and turn it on
for individual mails as needed.
--
Daniel
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-01-21 16:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-01-15 17:44 Martin Eriksson
2002-01-15 17:47 ` David S. Miller
2002-01-15 17:52 ` Martin Dalecki
2002-01-15 18:04 ` Linus Torvalds
2002-01-15 19:28 ` Alan Cox
2002-01-15 19:29 ` Davide Libenzi
2002-01-15 19:49 ` Nicolas Pitre
2002-01-15 22:09 ` Patrick Mochel
2002-01-15 22:16 ` Andreas Dilger
2002-01-16 0:11 ` Removing the whitespaces??? [Was: Re: Why not "attach" patches?] Henning P. Schmiedehausen
2002-01-16 4:16 ` Andreas Dilger
2002-01-17 8:56 ` Ravindra Jaju
2002-01-16 0:26 ` Stuart Young
2002-01-15 23:13 ` Why not "attach" patches? Urban Widmark
2002-01-15 23:51 ` Sebastian Benoit
2002-01-15 19:59 ` Jeff Garzik
2002-01-21 16:15 ` Daniel Phillips [this message]
2002-01-22 18:17 ` H. Peter Anvin
2002-01-24 6:59 ` Kai Henningsen
2002-01-16 11:46 ` Christoph Rohland
2002-01-16 17:22 ` Linus Torvalds
2002-01-15 18:50 ` Richard Gooch
2002-01-15 17:57 ` Kent Borg
2002-01-15 19:38 ` Martin Eriksson
2002-01-15 19:48 ` Anton Altaparmakov
2002-01-15 23:34 ` Johan Kullstam
2002-01-15 18:02 ` Linus Torvalds
2002-01-15 18:39 ` Andi Kleen
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