Hi! On Wed, Mar 18, 2020 at 06:33:08PM -0400, Frank Ch. Eigler wrote: > > [...] We need to think about setting up easier ways for people to > > submit patches, rather than trying to fix all of the MUAs and MTAs > > in the world. > > Another related point. We are comingling email as a communication > medium AND a commit transport medium. For the former, as in patch > review / RFC, one may not require a form of the patch that is finally > committable to master, so the exact From: etc. may not matter.
But OTOH, it is extremely valuable to review the commit message at the same time as the patch. Which we now *can*, for contributors who follow a more "git-like" workflow. > For the latter, attachments are more bullet-proof. Disregarding binary attachments, which are unworkable with many tools (and which are disallowed on gcc-patches for that reason), is this really true? Do some MUAs (or MTAs) mess up only the first body part they encounter? Or what? Segher
