Re: Creating attachments using git-format-patch

Panagiotis Issaris [off-list ref] writes:

I've been trying to start using git-format-patch together with
git-send-email, but I've encountered some problems. The
mailinglist I want to send the patches to, requires patches to
be sent as attachments. So, I tried using the --attach option
of git-format-patch.

Strictly speaking, I think --attach option is misnamed.  It's
sole purpose is to create a multipart/mixed whose first part is
the commit log message and the second part is the patch text to
help cases where the patch text is not UTF-8 but the log message
is.

We mark the second part inline because it is easier to review if
the patch is shown inline in MUA.

For now, I think you could edit "inline;" to "attachment;".

We could introduce a new option "--inline" that does what the
current "--attach" does, and make "--attach" write "attachment;"
instead of "inline;" there, but that changes the behaviour, and
people who are used to use "--attach" to send out patches to
mailing lists suddenly start sending more cumbersome-to-read
variant, so...