On October 31, 2002 01:46 pm, Greg Turner wrote:
In support of attached patches:
Most are irrelevant. The point is not to transport the patch to Alexandre. If so, you might as well send it directly to him. Point is to get peer review, and maybe comments. For this purpose, inlining the patch is the preferred methods, hands down. Reasons have been hashed already multiple time, please read the archives. There are good reasons why people with a lot of experience handling patches (e.g. Alexandre, Linus, etc.) prefer this method.