On Mon, Feb 06, 2017 at 12:48:45PM -0600, LaFreniere, Joseph wrote:
> May I ask why the patch was included in the message body as opposed to an
> attachment? I am unfamiliar to mailing list conventions, but it seems that
> a discrete file would be more easily managed.
From
http://suckless.org/community:
> When sending a patch use the following commands:
>
> cd $project
> git send-email --subject-prefix="$(basename $(pwd))][PATCH" \
> --to hackers_AT_suckless.org -1
>
> This will send the last commit of the repository to the mailinglist
> adding a prefix to the subject which includes the appropriate project
> name. This allows easier referencing and filtering of the e-mails for
> the maintainers subscribed to hackers_AT_.
There have been discussions about the preferred patch format, but there
were lots of differing opinions, and people still often use attachments
despite what the community documentation requests.
Eric
Received on Mon Feb 06 2017 - 20:12:20 CET