Re: [PATCH/RFC] doc: about email clients for Linux kernel patches

[Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>]

On Tue, Sep 11, 2007 at 02:31:16PM -0400, Nicolas Pitre wrote:
> On Tue, 11 Sep 2007, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, Sep 11, 2007 at 02:03:34PM -0400, Nicolas Pitre wrote:
> > > On Tue, 11 Sep 2007, Randy Dunlap wrote:
> > >...
> > > > +Alpine (TUI)
> > > > +
> > > > +<I don't know.  Maybe Adrian or Linus can comment.>
> > > > +
> > > > +Are any special config options needed?
> > > 
> > > Alpine is the successor of Pine.  Issues that were found in some earlier 
> > > Pine versions wrt patch sending are now fixed.
> > >...
> > 
> > There were no problems with sending patches in pine.
> 
> One old version did have problems with spaces at the end of lines 
> despite the config option, and you had to manually patch it if your 
> distro didn't.

This could be, but it's not worth documenting that there once was one 
broken version.

Generally, pine doesn't have problems with sending patches.

> Nicolas

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Adrian

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