On Mon, Feb 06, 2017 at 12:48:45PM -0600, LaFreniere, Joseph wrote: > May I ask why the patch was included in the message body as opposed to an > attachment? I am unfamiliar to mailing list conventions, but it seems that > a discrete file would be more easily managed.
>From http://suckless.org/community: > When sending a patch use the following commands: > > cd $project > git send-email --subject-prefix="$(basename $(pwd))][PATCH" \ > --to hack...@suckless.org -1 > > This will send the last commit of the repository to the mailinglist > adding a prefix to the subject which includes the appropriate project > name. This allows easier referencing and filtering of the e-mails for > the maintainers subscribed to hackers@. There have been discussions about the preferred patch format, but there were lots of differing opinions, and people still often use attachments despite what the community documentation requests. Eric
