> On Tue, Jan 15, 2002 at 06:44:58PM +0100, Martin Eriksson wrote:
> > 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.
>
> It is nice to have the patch to look at when looking at the mail, and
> it is nice to have the mail to look at when looking at the patch.
>
> One of the features of patch is that you can save the whole patch
> e-mail to a file and use it directly; patch is willing to skip over
> all the e-mail headers and regular looking text until it sees
> something that looks like a patch. Handy, huh?
Aaah.. DOH! That was just what was lurking in the back of my head, but the
thinking part of the brain didn't quite grasp it. Of course "patch" will
skip "no-patch" text instead of crapping out. Hell, if I'd designed the
"patch" program that behaviour would have been one of the first things to
implement.
Sorry for the LKML spam then =) but ain't it nice with one of these
"easy-to-answer" mails from time to time...?
/Martin Eriksson
PS. I really hate OE. Anyone care to recommend THE Windoze Mail+News reader
program, with EXTREME filtering capabilities AND not looking like crap?
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