C++ PATCH: Tree dumper

Tue Nov 13 15:03:00 GMT 2001

On Tue, 20 Nov 2001, Bryce McKinlay 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.

-- 
Joseph S. Myers
jsm28@cam.ac.uk