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

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Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Date
Apr 28, 2007, 00:20 UTC
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On Fri, 27 Apr 2007, Carl Worth wrote:
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> > And the reason I _hate_ attachements is that you cannot say "no, that one
> > is wrong", and just skip/edit it.
> 
> Well, skipping it while applying the rest is bad form anyway, isn't
> it?
Why would it be?

Maybe for small projects with strictly linear development, but I get a _lot_ of patch-series where the patches are independent of each other. Andrew's patch-series are one example, but so is a lot of the "trivial tree" patch-series too.

			Linus
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Message 15 of 20 in “FEATURE REQUEST: git-format-path: Add option to encode patch content”
  1. Jari AaltoApr 27, 2007
  2. Johannes SchindelinApr 27, 2007
  3. Jari AaltoApr 27, 2007
  4. Alex RiesenApr 27, 2007
  5. Johannes SchindelinApr 28, 2007
  6. Junio C HamanoApr 27, 2007
  7. Robin H. JohnsonApr 27, 2007
  8. Carl WorthApr 27, 2007
  9. Junio C HamanoApr 27, 2007
  10. Linus TorvaldsApr 27, 2007
  11. Carl WorthApr 27, 2007
  12. Linus TorvaldsApr 27, 2007
  13. Linus TorvaldsApr 27, 2007
  14. Carl WorthApr 27, 2007
  15. Linus TorvaldsApr 28, 2007
  16. Junio C HamanoApr 28, 2007
  17. Carl WorthApr 30, 2007
  18. Junio C HamanoApr 28, 2007
  19. Carl WorthApr 30, 2007
  20. Junio C HamanoApr 30, 2007

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