Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 12 Sep 2007 15:16:38 -0400 | From | Rik van Riel <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH/RFC] doc: about email clients for Linux kernel patches |
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Jeff Garzik wrote: > 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).
Interestingly, Thunderbird does this right and simply adds text/plain attachments to the quoted text.
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