From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Cc: Kevin Ballard <kevin@sb.org>, git@vger.kernel.org, peff@peff.net
Subject: Re: [PATCH] format-patch: Produce better output with --inline or --attach
Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2008 11:52:59 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7vmyjz5hmc.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LSU.1.00.0807301624410.3486@wbgn129.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de> (Johannes Schindelin's message of "Wed, 30 Jul 2008 16:29:39 +0200 (CEST)")
Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes:
>> The second change is to always write the line termination character
>> (default: newline) even when using --inline or --attach. This is simply
>> to improve the aesthetics of the resulting message. When using --inline
>> an email client should render the resulting message identically to the
>> non-inline version. And when using --attach this adds a blank line
>> preceding the attachment in the email, which is visually attractive.
>
> It appears that your patch has one uncontroversial and one controversial
> part, then.
Could you elaborate what's controversial about this?
prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-07-30 18:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-07-29 23:49 [PATCH] format-patch: Produce better output with --inline or --attach Kevin Ballard
2008-07-30 5:24 ` Jeff King
2008-07-30 5:49 ` Kevin Ballard
2008-07-30 14:29 ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-07-30 18:30 ` Kevin Ballard
2008-07-30 18:37 ` Kevin Ballard
2008-07-31 5:52 ` Jeff King
2008-07-30 18:52 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
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