Re: [PATCH] Add "raw" output option to blobs in "tree" view format

[Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>]

Luben Tuikov <ltuikov@yahoo.com> writes:

> Add a "raw" output option to blobs in "tree" view format, so that the
> user doesn't have to click on "blob", wait for the (binary) file to be
> uploaded and shown in "blob" mode, and then click on "plain" to
> download the (binary) file.

I appreciate what you are trying to achieve, but at the same
time wonder if it would make more sense to simply teach a=blob
action to do this automatically, perhaps using /etc/mime.types
and/or File::MMagic.

If you know your MUA will mangle whitespace to make your patch
inapplicable, please do not add a patch to the message _and_
attach the patch to the message.  The mail-acceptance tools know
how to flatten MIME attachments, but if you have your log,
three-dash and then corrupt patch in the cover-letter part, and
then the true patch in the attachment part, the flattened result
will have the corrupt patch first to cause the patch application
to fail.  So please either (preferably) use a MUA that does not
corrupt your patches, or do a log in the message part with patch
only as attachment.