Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 4 May 2005 13:10:35 -0400 | From | Jon Smirl <> | Subject | Re: [RFC][PATCH] update SubmittingPatches to clarify attachment policy |
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On 5/4/05, Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com> wrote: > > I think the general opinion of posting patches as attachments > has changed over the last few years. Mailers have been getting > a lot better at handling them, even quoting non-message-body > plain/text attachments in replies.
There is also the problem of things like gmail/yahoo where you can't control the word wrapping. The only way to submit patches from those services is as an plain text attachment. If you try to submit then in-line and they wrap wrong you will collect a lot of hate mail from Andrew.
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