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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
-- 
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"Unix gives you enough rope to shoot yourself in the foot."
http://www.zytor.com/~hpa/puzzle.txt	<amsp@zytor.com>

  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

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