Messages in this thread | | | From | "Martin Eriksson" <> | 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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