Re: [RFC][PATCH] update SubmittingPatches to clarify attachment policy

["Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>]

Hi,

On Wednesday, 4 of May 2005 19:10, Jon Smirl wrote:
> On 5/4/05, Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com> wrote:
> > 
> > I think the general opinion of posting patches as attachments
> > has changed over the last few years.  Mailers have been getting
> > a lot better at handling them, even quoting non-message-body
> > plain/text attachments in replies.
> 
> There is also the problem of things like gmail/yahoo where you can't
> control the word wrapping.  The only way to submit patches from those
> services is as an plain text attachment. If you try to submit then
> in-line and they wrap wrong you will collect a lot of hate mail from
> Andrew.

Well, IMHO, if your mailer does not handle patches correctly, you can try to
include your patch in the message body and say something like "sorry, my
mailer messes up with patches so I'm attaching it too", _and_ attach it ...

Greets,
Rafael


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