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Re: Suggestion for mailing lists... split [PATCH]-es into own list

From
Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date
Oct 11, 2007, 16:07 UTC
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<Pine.LNX.4.64.0710111704570.4174@racer.site>
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Hi,
On Thu, 11 Oct 2007, Thomas Harning Jr. wrote:
> I use gmail as my mail client and it doesn't grok 'PATCH' filters 
> (primarily the case of the word).
That's just another bug in gmail.
> Are there any of you using Gmail that has managed to get around this 
> issue....?

We did not even find a way to post patches via gmail's web interface, not without severely damaging the patches. So I guess no, most of us avoid the web interface (unless absolutely necessary, in which case we resort to the less than brilliant solution to attach the patches).

> Perhaps we should have a separate mailing list for patches vs 
> discussion.

I, for one, am totally opposed to this split. All too often valuable _user_ discussions turn into _technical_ discussions, and thence into a throwing back and forth patches.

Ciao, Dscho

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  1. Thomas Harning Jr.Oct 11, 2007
  2. Johannes SchindelinOct 11, 2007
  3. Is it possible for git to support binary differencing for binary files?银平, Oct 11, 2007
  4. Jean-Luc HerrenOct 11, 2007
  5. frankyOct 12, 2007
  6. Alex RiesenOct 11, 2007
  7. Martin LanghoffOct 12, 2007
  8. Simon SasburgOct 12, 2007
  9. Lars HjemliOct 12, 2007
  10. Simon SasburgOct 12, 2007
  11. Johannes SchindelinOct 12, 2007
  12. Steven GrimmOct 11, 2007
  13. BazOct 11, 2007

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