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Posted to dev@subversion.apache.org by Julian Foad <ju...@btopenworld.com> on 2003/12/19 17:52:57 UTC
Patches as attachments rather than in line
Is anyone here not *easily* able to read a patch attached to a message? I sometimes wonder if I should paste my patches into the message body despite the white space breakage that would happen.
- Julian
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Re: Patches as attachments rather than in line
Posted by Justin Erenkrantz <ju...@erenkrantz.com>.
--On Friday, December 19, 2003 5:52 PM +0000 Julian Foad
<ju...@btopenworld.com> wrote:
> Is anyone here not *easily* able to read a patch attached to a message? I
> sometimes wonder if I should paste my patches into the message body despite
> the white space breakage that would happen.
If it's sent as application/octet-stream, there's no way I can easily read it.
If it's sent using a decent MIME type, then it's okay here. But, some MUAs
(Outlook) usually only send attachments as octet-stream. So, I think it's a
bad policy to advocate for everyone because of these broken mailers. -- justin
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Re: Patches as attachments rather than in line
Posted by Eric Gillespie <ep...@pretzelnet.org>.
Julian Foad <ju...@btopenworld.com> writes:
> Is anyone here not *easily* able to read a patch attached to a
> message?
The important thing is that you use a sane MIME type and
encoding. All MIMEd patches should use a text/* MIME type and NO
ENCODING. Quoted-unreadable is an abomination.
If i can't show -noshowproc | patch -s, i won't be happy.
> I sometimes wonder if I should paste my patches into the
> message body despite the white space breakage that would
> happen.
White space breakage? If the editor you compose your messages
with can't insert an external file, it needs replacing.
--
Eric Gillespie <*> epg@pretzelnet.org
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Re: Patches as attachments rather than in line
Posted by Ben Reser <be...@reser.org>.
On Fri, Dec 19, 2003 at 05:52:57PM +0000, Julian Foad wrote:
> Is anyone here not *easily* able to read a patch attached to a message? I
> sometimes wonder if I should paste my patches into the message body despite
> the white space breakage that would happen.
I can. Ones that are sent as text/plain automatically get inlined for
me in mutt. A couple days ago I posted how to do the same in mutt with
text/x-diff or for that matter any other text file of any mime-type that
gets attached. I can't speak for what other mail readers allow or don't
allow.
--
Ben Reser <be...@reser.org>
http://ben.reser.org
"Conscience is the inner voice which warns us somebody may be looking."
- H.L. Mencken
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