Re: [PATCH/RFC] doc: about email clients for Linux kernel patches

[Jeff Garzik]

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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