Re: FEATURE REQUEST: git-format-path: Add option to encode patch content

From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Date: Apr 27, 2007, 23:47 UTC
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.0.98.0704271644460.9964@woody.linux-foundation.org>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.0.98.0704271636130.9964@woody.linux-foundation.org>

On Fri, 27 Apr 2007, Linus Torvalds wrote:

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> And when patch 5 is crap, you're basically screwed. There is almost no 
> support for replying to that _individually_ and saying "That one sucks". 
> You press "reply", and you get all ten.

Btw, this is true even when the attachment itself is just an mbox.

Yes, you can (and probably do) just save the mbox to a file, and then start _another_ mail reader on that file. That's actually what I end up doing a lot for my "doit" file (which is just where I save all the messages that I'll apply) when I go through them more carefully.

But it doesn't change the fact that if you just see something wrong, you can't just reply to it and say "that's crap". You have to basically exit your primary mail-reader, and start a secondary one on the file you saved.

Also, I assume that this means that nobody else is ever Cc'd on the patches you get? Like a public mailing list?

		Linus