From: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
To: "Martin Eriksson" <nitrax@giron.wox.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Why not "attach" patches?
Date: 15 Jan 2002 19:39:40 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3wuyjjw5v.fsf@averell.firstfloor.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <005901c19dec$59a89e30$0201a8c0@HOMER>
In-Reply-To: "Martin Eriksson"'s message of "Tue, 15 Jan 2002 18:50:15 +0100"
"Martin Eriksson" <nitrax@giron.wox.org> writes:
> 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.
>
> OTOH I don't have very deep knowledge of "diff" and "patch", so maybe I have
> missed something here...
Patches are often saved and applied later. In this case it is useful to have
the context of the mail message it was contained in around in the same
file, so that you later actually know what you apply if you happen to
not memorize it completely. Patch will ignore the mail part so it can be
still applied directly.
With saved attachments you usually just a patch and no description, or
it requires extra effort to save the description too.
-Andi
prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-01-15 18:42 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
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 [this message]
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