From: Karl Hasselström <kha@treskal.com>
Date: Fri, 03 Nov 2006 11:35:36 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Allow hand-editing of patches before sending
Message-ID: <20061103113536.GA19382@diana.vm.bytemark.co.uk>
In-Reply-To: <7vslh0bwsm.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

On 2006-11-03 03:21:29 -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> Karl Hasselström <kha@treskal.com> writes:
>
> > This all just strengthens my belief that StGIT should go to great
> > legths to avoid stepping on mail servers' toes.
>
> I wonder if this can be solved by simply reusing the machinery
> format-patch already has. If calling it as a standalone script does
> more unnecessary things than what StGIT wants, we should certainly
> be able to separate the only necessary part out to suit StGIT's
> needs.

Yes, I agree. Mail code tends to not be so beautiful that you want to
maintain more copies of it than absolutely necessary.

Of course, the same reasoning applies when importing mails into stgit.

-- 
Karl Hasselström, kha@treskal.com