From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.ciao.gmane.io!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: git-send-email Date: Mon, 15 Jun 2020 11:12:43 +0300 Message-ID: <4350ACE2-2241-485D-8F50-CB6030E43AD7@gnu.org> References: <875zdteybt.fsf@runbox.com> <87368wrvf5.fsf@yahoo.com> <86k126d83n.wl-me@enzu.ru> <83pnbyckvv.fsf@gnu.org> <4923d7e98f5ed816a7569093dbc673153adcea88.camel@yandex.ru> <837dwb3zb6.fsf@gnu.org> <20200613141653.GA55972@breton.holly.idiocy.org> <835zbv3v6q.fsf@gnu.org> <20200613142329.GA56313@breton.holly.idiocy.org> <834krf3uij.fsf@gnu.org> <87r1ujatv4.fsf@igel.home> <831rmj3stn.fsf@gnu.org> <87mu57atav.fsf@igel.home> <87lfkpcn6t.fsf_-_@gmail.com> <83d0612gx3.fsf@gnu.org> <87eeqg7r0w.fsf@igel.home> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="ciao.gmane.io:159.69.161.202"; logging-data="130490"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: K-9 Mail for Android Cc: alan@idiocy.org, =?ISO-8859-1?Q?K=E9vin_Le_Gouguec?= , stefan@marxist.se, hi-angel@yandex.ru To: emacs-devel@gnu.org,Andreas Schwab Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Mon Jun 15 10:13:32 2020 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1jkkFH-000Xrr-Em for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 15 Jun 2020 10:13:31 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:44270 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jkkFG-0000bT-Gb for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 15 Jun 2020 04:13:30 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:59574) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jkkEf-0007RG-41 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 15 Jun 2020 04:12:53 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:60531) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jkkEc-0004M6-MG; Mon, 15 Jun 2020 04:12:50 -0400 Original-Received: from [176.12.209.73] (port=31369 helo=[10.214.118.182]) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:128) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1jkkEa-000769-3S; Mon, 15 Jun 2020 04:12:50 -0400 In-Reply-To: <87eeqg7r0w.fsf@igel.home> X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:252259 Archived-At: On June 15, 2020 9:59:59 AM GMT+03:00, Andreas Schwab wrote: > On Jun 15 2020, Eli Zaretskii wrote: >=20 > > We accept and welcome patches in any form and shape=2E However, we > > recommend to use "git format-patch" (see CONTRIBUTE), >=20 > Which is exactly what he did=2E No, he did not=2E He said that much: he used "git send-email"=2E You are hinting that "git send-email" runs format-patch internally, for so= me variants of its command-line arguments=2E But that is not what CONTRIBU= TE says about using "git send-email", and for a good reason: doing it the C= ONTRIBUTE way produces email messages that are easily recognizable as being= fit for "git am", and don't require tedious and error-prone manual analysi= s to make sure it is not just diffs pasted into the email body=2E We can discuss changes to CONTRIBUTE, but as long as it says something, le= t's try to act as it says=2E We usually have good reasons for what it says= =2E