Re: patch submission process, was Re: [PATCH v6 06/16] merge_recursive: abort properly upon errors

From: Eric Wong <e@80x24.org>
Date: Aug 6, 2016, 21:43 UTC
Message-ID: <20160806214325.GA9484@starla>
In-Reply-To: <xmqq8tw9iw7i.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com>

Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:

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> Somebody mentioned "configuring it is hard--why does the user have
> to know SMTP subtleties", and that may be a valid complaint against
> the primary part of send-email.  The solution for that is not to
> discard it with bathwater, but make it just as easy as other MSAs,
> say, Thunderbird, to configure for an average user who can configure
> these other MUAs.

Sadly, the average user does not use an MUA, SMTP or IMAP, anymore. It's all webmail or apps using proprietary protocols. Embrace, extend, extinguish :<

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