Re: patch submission process, was Re: [PATCH v6 06/16] merge_recursive: abort properly upon errors

Johannes Schindelin [off-list ref] writes:

I think you both got it wrong. The original citizens were the mail
clients that allowed you to communicate with other human beings.
... It is our usage to transport machine-readable content (and not
as an attachment!) that is the intruder.

It is not "its is our usage".

You are too young to remember or too old to remember the history, or
you are knowingly distorting it.  The original users of "patch" and
"diff" expected that e-mail to be a medium to safely exchange
changes to programs among themselves.