Re: [Xen-devel] Re: [Patch] Fix blktap to work with a bootloader

[Ewan Mellor <ewan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Oct 10, 2006 at 04:01:42PM +0100, Keir Fraser wrote:

> On 10/10/06 15:56, "Stephen C. Tweedie" <sct@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > btw, is the process of merging patches from email being done completely
> > manually?  git certainly has really good pull-from-email scripts that
> > avoid this sort of oversight, but I'm not sure hg is quite so well
> > equipped.
> 
> Usually patches are applied as a whole unit using 'patch', even if they have
> to be manually extracted from the email. Looks like Andy might have done
> this one by hand and got it wrong!

On that note, _please_ can people submit patches

  1. as attachments,
  2. with a text/plain MIME type, and preferably
  3. using hg export with a decent comment and a Signed-off-by: line in place.

It makes life a lot easier!

If your mailer doesn't do text/plain attachments properly, and for some reason
you still want to use such a broken heap of four-ex, then the next best thing
is plain-text inline in the message (because most people can't review patches
very easily if your mailer has sent it as an octet-stream).

Thanks,

Ewan.

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