Re: Sending patches as eml message attachment?

From: Bagas Sanjaya
Date: Sun Apr 28 2024 - 09:32:28 EST


On 4/28/24 18:18, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 28, 2024 at 06:10:16PM +0700, Bagas Sanjaya wrote:
>> On 4/28/24 16:56, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
>>> Why would they be?
>>>
>>> Attachments don't usually work as you can not reply to them and comment
>>> on the contents, right? Try it yourself and see.
>>>
>>
>> OK.
>>
>> I experimented this by sending dummy patches to myself, as attachment.
>> I replied to the patch using mutt and thunderbird. In mutt, the patch
>> contents was quoted, whereas in the latter, it was missing. Hence,
>> email clients are inconsistent on handling patch attachments.
>
> That is true, which is why we say "do not attach patches". It's as if
> people assume we are new at this whole thing...
>

OK, thanks!

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