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Re: requiring text format for patch attachments?
- From: Richard Henderson <rth at twiddle dot net>
- To: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf at tilera dot com>
- Cc: GLIBC Devel <libc-alpha at sourceware dot org>
- Date: Fri, 28 Jun 2013 11:31:58 -0700
- Subject: Re: requiring text format for patch attachments?
- References: <CABXK9nfhHHnm+4LLnrtW-=Py69WvwcF3BWt-kf-TNHsPvqa5ig at mail dot gmail dot com> <51CD9D3B dot 8090002 at tilera dot com>
On 06/28/2013 07:27 AM, Chris Metcalf wrote:
> It does seem like with the rise of GUI MUAs it has become harder to reliably
> paste patches into emails. I end up writing emails that include patches in
> a text editor and then running "sendmail -f < myemail", which frankly, isn't
> a great user experience. :-) To be fair, I just checked Thunderbird, and
> my configuration does seem to use "text/" types for diff attachments, so
> perhaps I'll switch to using that going forward. I did double-check the
> wiki contribution checklist to confirm it says "patches inline or as
> attachments", so from that point of view we seem to be OK.
I'm using git-send-email for almost all of my patches these days.
Given that you can put a
[sendemail]
to = "libc-alpha@sourceware.org"
clause in the .git/config, I know that I'm sending the patches to
the right place if I do the send-email from within the repository
of the project.
r~