Christian Stimming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> Am Freitag, 27. Juni 2008 18:07 schrieb Derek Atkins:
>> Always attach patches.  It's just common knowledge.  
>
> That's what I thought, too - until I submitted my first patch to any of the 
> git mailing lists. Folks over there are pushing very very hard for inlined 
> patches instead of attached ones. Their main reason is that they'd like to 
> reply and quote the relevant patch portions directly.
>
> As always, there are reasons for both ways of doing things. I'd just like to 
> reply here that indeed each project has different preferences in this 
> question, and in fact both preferences exist in the free software world.

Very interesting!  Inlined patches are very hard to apply,
but eh, to each their own.

I suppose this should be documented somewhere if it isn't
already.  I haven't looked.

> Christian

-derek

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