Linux: The Perfect Patch

Posted by dave on Aug 29, 2004 4:00 AM EDT
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In reply to a patch submission on the lkml in the form of a link to an ftp site, Andrew Morton replied, "I *really* dislike receiving patches by going and getting them from internet servers. It breaks our commonly-used tools. It loses authorship info. It loses Signed-off-by: info. There is no changelog. All this means that your patch is more likely to be ignored by busy people. Please, just email the diffs."

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