Re: Why not "attach" patches?

From: Martin Dalecki (dalecki@evision-ventures.com)
Date: Tue Jan 15 2002 - 12:52:55 EST


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.
>
>OTOH I don't have very deep knowledge of "diff" and "patch", so maybe I have
>missed something here...
>
Don't worry - nothign prevents proper attached patches from beeing
applied - the FAQ is only a bit
zealous on this ;-)

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