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"Martin Eriksson" <nitrax@giron.wox.org> writes: > ----- 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? dunno if you feel it looks like crap or not, but i recommend gnus/emacs. it works great on both windows and linux. it can split mail into buckets/folders. it has better than filtering, it has SCORING. i am not sure what to do about the ubiquitous sendmail/mailbox ^From braindamage though. qmail using maildir doesn't suffer from it. -- J o h a n K u l l s t a m [kullstam@mediaone.net] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | ||||||||||||
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