On Tue, Sep 05, 2006 at 03:27:39PM +0200, Jean Delvare wrote: > Hi Ville, > > > Add a new --no-intro option to quilt mail to comply with akpm's > > "The perfect patch" guidelines. > > I didn't know about that particular section (6b) of akpm's The Perfect > Patch. I don't quite agree, and I know of other top kernel developers > (e.g. Greg KH) who do send an introduction patch when sending patch > series. As long as you keep in mind that the introduction is only meant > for the mailing list, I find it a convenient way to share summaries and > series statistics. > > Nevertheless I agree that it might be needed in some cases to send a > series of patches with no introductory mail. But I am confused by your > implementation, because it still invokes an editor for the > introduction, and most of what you type there is lost. --no-intro also > fails if I don't set the Subject in the introduction, while this > subject won't be used anyway. This needs to be improved.
OK. I just wanted something that works with the least amount of changes to the code :) I can try to improve it. > We could decide that --no-intro is never interactive (--to becomes > mandatory), or make it clearer at edition that only some mail headers > are to be edited. I think Subject-Prefix should remain editable at least. > This would mean removing the Message-Id, Date and > Subject headers as well as the signature, and maybe even adding an > explicit warning. Why are Message-Id and Date editable in the first place? -- Ville Syrjälä [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.sci.fi/~syrjala/ _______________________________________________ Quilt-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/quilt-dev
