From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: George Dunlap Subject: Re: Formatting of emails which are comments on patches. Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2012 12:42:04 +0100 Message-ID: <4F86BF8C.6030700@eu.citrix.com> References: <7e76233448b02810f0ae.1334150272@Solace> <4F86AD6E.3050705@eu.citrix.com> <20358.48462.638395.960649@mariner.uk.xensource.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; Format="flowed" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20358.48462.638395.960649@mariner.uk.xensource.com> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xen.org Errors-To: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xen.org To: Ian Jackson Cc: "xen-devel@lists.xen.org" List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org On 12/04/12 12:32, Ian Jackson wrote: > Can I ask people to: > > * Trim diffs when replying to patches. There is no need to quote the > whole patch. Just quote the parts which are needed to understand > your comments. > > * Leave a blank line between quoted text of any kind and your own > added text. > > That will help your comments stand out, and be read. This is > particularly important if the quoted patches come to more than 80 > columns, because then there are lots of breaks in the ">" down the > left hand side due to wrap damage and they are hard to tell from > interspersed comments. > > Thanks and sorry to be picky. No problem -- sorry for not doing my own trimming; gmail does a good job trimming stuff automatically, so I forget what it looks like. -George