Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 11 Sep 2007 15:55:20 -0400 | From | Jeff Garzik <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH/RFC] doc: about email clients for Linux kernel patches |
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Chris Friesen wrote: > Randy Dunlap wrote: > >> +Thunderbird (GUI) >> + >> +By default, thunderbird likes to mangle text, but there are ways to >> +coerce it into being nice. > > Can someone describe the problems with just attaching the patch in > Thunderbird? It's what Martin says he does on the linked document...
Email clients don't like to quote attachments, even text/plain ones, which then makes attached patches much more difficult to review and comment on (i.e. you greatly reduce the number of reviewers).
Jeff
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