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Re: Creating attachments using git-format-patch

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Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date
Mar 4, 2007, 03:43 UTC
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Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes:
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> On Sat, 3 Mar 2007, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>
>> We could introduce a new option "--inline" that does what the
>> current "--attach" does, and make "--attach" write "attachment;"
>> instead of "inline;" there, but that changes the behaviour, and
>> people who are used to use "--attach" to send out patches to
>> mailing lists suddenly start sending more cumbersome-to-read
>> variant, so...
>
> ... so we should introduce an option "--no-inline"!

Yes, but this time around I _think_ we should admit that the current option is misnamed and make it right.

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Message 5 of 12 in “Creating attachments using git-format-patch”
  1. Panagiotis IssarisMar 3, 2007
  2. Junio C HamanoMar 3, 2007
  3. Johannes SchindelinMar 3, 2007
  4. format-patch: add --no-inline optionJohannes Schindelin, Mar 3, 2007
  5. Junio C HamanoMar 4, 2007
  6. Junio C HamanoMar 4, 2007
  7. Johannes SchindelinMar 4, 2007
  8. Panagiotis IssarisMar 4, 2007
  9. Panagiotis IssarisMar 4, 2007
  10. Junio C HamanoMar 4, 2007
  11. Panagiotis IssarisMar 4, 2007
  12. Junio C HamanoMar 5, 2007

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