From: Linus Torvalds Date: Tue, 08 Nov 2005 18:15:27 GMT Subject: Re: ls-files and read-tree need core.filemode Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <7vacgfldry.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> On Tue, 8 Nov 2005, Junio C Hamano wrote: > > Attachments are a bit cumbersome to quote but otherwise OK, at > least for me. Linus never admits it, but I am hoping that he is > having a bit easier time applying e-mailed patches ever since > rudimentally MIME attachment handling was added. Actually, the MIME attachment support in git means that I have to remove the "Content-Type: .. boundary: " line too when editing emails. I do all my patch validation in mbox format (which is why when you look at commit dates, you'll generally see a second or less between commits when I actually apply a mbox series), and the MIME format makes emails totally unreadable. So I refuse to have anything to do with attachments and MIME types not because my tools couldn't apply the patches, but because I can't go through the patches manually sanely with them. So I can do plain/text attachments, but they inevitably mean that I just have to edit the damn mailbox to make sense of it. Anything else (like base64-encoding or similar) I just refuse to touch. Linus