submitting patches

[Jerry Quinn]

Derek Atkins wrote:
> Christian Stimming <stimming at tuhh.de> writes:
>
>   
>> Am Freitag, 27. Juni 2008 18:07 schrieb Derek Atkins:
>>     
>>> Always attach patches.  It's just common knowledge.  
>>>       
>> That's what I thought, too - until I submitted my first patch to any of the 
>> git mailing lists. Folks over there are pushing very very hard for inlined 
>> patches instead of attached ones. Their main reason is that they'd like to 
>> reply and quote the relevant patch portions directly.
>>
>> As always, there are reasons for both ways of doing things. I'd just like to 
>> reply here that indeed each project has different preferences in this 
>> question, and in fact both preferences exist in the free software world.
>>     
>
> Very interesting!  Inlined patches are very hard to apply,
> but eh, to each their own.
>   
The gcc development community also inlines patches in their messages.  I
thought patch would ignore all the mail junk at the top of a message until
it saw something that looks like a patch, so applying should be a matter
of saving the message and applying the resulting file.

Jerry