From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Why not "attach" patches?
Date: 22 Jan 2002 10:17:37 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <a2kac1$m0a$1@cesium.transmeta.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E16QZFv-0005wy-00@the-village.bc.nu> <E16Sh69-0001iV-00@starship.berlin>
Followup to: <E16Sh69-0001iV-00@starship.berlin>
By author: Daniel Phillips <phillips@bonn-fries.net>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> Kmail's patch-mangling problems seem to be all gone in kmail 2.2+. The only
> thing to be careful about is that word wrap should be off. Since I
> forgot to
> turn it off a couple of times I now leave it permanently off and turn it on
> for individual mails as needed.
>
The common ground most people seems to be able to accept is:
a. Go ahead and make patches as attachments, if your MUA makes it easier;
b. Be bloody certain they're text/plain attachments.
-hpa
--
<hpa@transmeta.com> at work, <hpa@zytor.com> in private!
"Unix gives you enough rope to shoot yourself in the foot."
http://www.zytor.com/~hpa/puzzle.txt <amsp@zytor.com>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-01-22 18:18 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 [this message]
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
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
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to='a2kac1$m0a$1@cesium.transmeta.com' \
--to=hpa@zytor.com \
--cc=linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox