SubmittingPatches: improve documentation re: buggy mailers
PATCH 1/1 SubmittingPatches: improve documentation re: buggy mailers
There are plenty of perfectly good mailers available that don't mangle patches. Warn users about buggy mailers in general and Thunderbird in particular.
Signed-off-by Lee Revell <[email protected]>
Documentation/SubmittingPatches renamed from Documentation/SubmittingPatches-orig +6 -2
@@ -186,6 +186,10 @@ For this reason, all patches should be submitting e-mail "inline". WARNING: Be wary of your editor's word-wrap corrupting your patch, if you choose to cut-n-paste your patch. +WARNING: Avoid Mozilla's Thunderbird email client, unlike other +popular mailers it seems to be incapable of sending +non-whitespace-damaged patches. + Do not attach the patch as a MIME attachment, compressed or not. Many popular e-mail applications will not always transmit a MIME
@@ -193,8 +197,8 @@ code. A MIME attachment also takes Linus a bit more time to process, decreasing the likelihood of your MIME-attached change being accepted. -Exception: If your mailer is mangling patches then someone may ask -you to re-send them using MIME. +No exceptions. If your mailer is mangling patches then you will be +told to get a better mailer.