Hi Jens,

> Well, my mail client (Thunderbird) and most modern clients I
> know are able to show attached files of text/x-patch (and
> similar) type. OTOH I wonder why you want to review patches
> in your mail client. Wouldn't it much better to use a

It is not that we read patches in the mail client, but that is also
useful.  The main use-case is to be able to easily comment on the patch
if changes are required.  And for that we require patches to be sent inline.

> specialized too which highlights the changes like
> $ gvim "+vert diffpatch <patchfile>" <originalfile>
> $ emacs
> or
> $ xfdiff ?
> Don't you have to save the patch files in such cases anyway?
> 

No, the typical workflow (at least for me) is to

- 'Save Email'
- vim email
- if looks okay, git am and compile test

Regards,
-Denis