Re: FEATURE REQUEST: git-format-path: Add option to encode patch content

[Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>]

On Fri, 27 Apr 2007, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
> And when patch 5 is crap, you're basically screwed. There is almost no 
> support for replying to that _individually_ and saying "That one sucks". 
> You press "reply", and you get all ten.

Btw, this is true even when the attachment itself is just an mbox.

Yes, you can (and probably do) just save the mbox to a file, and then 
start _another_ mail reader on that file. That's actually what I end up 
doing a lot for my "doit" file (which is just where I save all the 
messages that I'll apply) when I go through them more carefully.

But it doesn't change the fact that if you just see something wrong, you 
can't just reply to it and say "that's crap". You have to basically exit 
your primary mail-reader, and start a secondary one on the file you saved.

Also, I assume that this means that nobody else is ever Cc'd on the 
patches you get? Like a public mailing list?

		Linus