[PATCH]: Optional explanation for options

[Magnus Therning]

On Fri, Sep 16, 2005 at 09:28:33AM +0200, Jan Hudec wrote:
>On Thu, Sep 15, 2005 at 12:58:27 -0400, John A Meinel wrote:
>> In the future, can you attach patches, rather than putting them inline?
>> It means that patchwork will find them, as well as making it easier to
>> just save the attachment, rather than the cut and paste dance.
>
>Just as a side note:
>1) Many others (most remarkably Linus) require patches inline -- and
>   than everyone needs to keep track of who wants them which way.
>2) Many mail clients won't properly detect text/x-diff format, so that's
>   not reliable for patchwork anyway. So it can as well look for patch
>   headers everywhere (meaning including in the "body").
>3) You don't need to do any cut-and-paste dance. Just save the body.
>   patch will skip the text around the diff proper.

And I'd like to add that patchwork seems to find inline patches just
fine as well:

 http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/bazaar-ng/patch?id=2401

However, I'm not religious about this. I'll be attaching rather than
inlining patches in the future since that seems to be preferred by
others on the list as well...

/M

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