From: Kent Borg <kentborg@borg.org>
To: Martin Eriksson <nitrax@giron.wox.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Why not "attach" patches?
Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2002 12:57:02 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020115125702.B8840@borg.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <005901c19dec$59a89e30$0201a8c0@HOMER>
In-Reply-To: <005901c19dec$59a89e30$0201a8c0@HOMER>; from nitrax@giron.wox.org on Tue, Jan 15, 2002 at 06:44:58PM +0100
On Tue, Jan 15, 2002 at 06:44:58PM +0100, Martin Eriksson wrote:
> Why do many of you not _attach_ patches instead of merging them with the
> mail? It's so much cleaner and easier to have a "xxx-yyy.patch" file
> attached to the mail which can be saved in an appropriate directory. Also,
> the whitespace is always retained that way.
It is nice to have the patch to look at when looking at the mail, and
it is nice to have the mail to look at when looking at the patch.
One of the features of patch is that you can save the whole patch
e-mail to a file and use it directly; patch is willing to skip over
all the e-mail headers and regular looking text until it sees
something that looks like a patch. Handy, huh?
-kb
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-01-15 17:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-01-15 17:44 Why not "attach" patches? Martin Eriksson
2002-01-15 17:47 ` David S. Miller
2002-01-15 17:52 ` Martin Dalecki
2002-01-15 18:04 ` Linus Torvalds
2002-01-15 18:50 ` Richard Gooch
2002-01-15 19:28 ` Alan Cox
2002-01-15 19:29 ` Davide Libenzi
2002-01-15 19:49 ` Nicolas Pitre
2002-01-15 22:09 ` Patrick Mochel
2002-01-15 22:16 ` Andreas Dilger
2002-01-16 0:11 ` Removing the whitespaces??? [Was: Re: Why not "attach" patches?] Henning P. Schmiedehausen
2002-01-16 4:16 ` Andreas Dilger
2002-01-17 8:56 ` Ravindra Jaju
2002-01-16 0:26 ` Stuart Young
2002-01-15 23:13 ` Why not "attach" patches? Urban Widmark
2002-01-15 23:51 ` Sebastian Benoit
2002-01-15 19:59 ` Jeff Garzik
2002-01-21 16:15 ` Daniel Phillips
2002-01-22 18:17 ` H. Peter Anvin
2002-01-24 6:59 ` Kai Henningsen
2002-01-16 11:46 ` Christoph Rohland
2002-01-16 17:22 ` Linus Torvalds
2002-01-15 17:57 ` Kent Borg [this message]
2002-01-15 19:38 ` Martin Eriksson
2002-01-15 19:48 ` Anton Altaparmakov
2002-01-15 23:34 ` Johan Kullstam
2002-01-15 18:02 ` Linus Torvalds
2002-01-15 18:39 ` Andi Kleen
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