C++ PATCH: Tree dumper

[Bryce McKinlay]

Joseph S. Myers wrote:

>>I think sending patches as MIME attachments is a great idea, provided 
>>you can teach your mailer to send them as "text/plain" and not encoded 
>>as "octet-stream" or whatever. This way they will display inline on 
>>virtually any mail reader, and also have the advantage of being 
>>drag-and-drop saveable without worrying about formatting/whitespace 
>>problems etc.
>>
>
>On the contrary, patches in the main message body are more convenient for
>replying.
>

As long as the attachment is sent with "inline disposition", it *is* 
part of the message body, and your mailer should quote it in a reply 
just as it would for plain text.

regards,

Bryce.