Handling patches via email (particularly thunderbird).

["Carlos O'Donell" <carlos at systemhalted dot org>]

On Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 4:22 PM, Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net> wrote:
> On 11/28/2012 12:38 PM, Jeff Law wrote:
>>> Please inline your patches (see the contribution checklist please) it
>>> makes it much easier to carry out the reply/review cycle :-)
>> I haven't found a way to make thunderbird do that yet :(
>
> FWIW, for projects that use git, it's often easiest to ignore your
> standard MUA and use "git format-patch --cover-letter ...", edit the
> cover in your favorite editor, and then "git send-email".

I've never used that, but it sounds like a good process, I shall have to
try it.

> That sequence doesn't work quite as well with gcc.  I waffle between
> send-email and attachments for gcc.  But we also don't have a problem
> with out-line patches over in gcc-patches.

I'm curious, why doesn't it work well with gcc?

So one of the nice things that TB does well is that if the attachment
is a textual patch you can quickly hot-key select all and reply.
This has the effect of quoting all the things you had selected including
the in-line displayed attached patches. Then you can review as if the text
had been in-line and hit send.

I haven't setup anything like that in mutt.

Cheers,
Carlos.