On 10/06/14 17:45, André Gaul wrote:
Am 10.06.2014 17:40, schrieb Antonio Quartulli:
Oh you are right. I should have continued using mutt...
hehe, I'm glad it works now! :) I'll resubmit in a minute as a new thread.
btw: do you have any pointers to documentation that can help me understand why the kernel developers still use email as the primary channel for submitting patches? Given the fact that git gracefully handles the transmission of code, the handling of all code via email appears archaic and too complicated to me. (no flame war intended, I just want to learn about the reasons!) ;)
Honestly I don't know if there is any documentation.
Sending a patch to a mailing list is a way to ask for a review/evaluation, which works well so I don't see a clear reason why it should be changed (just that it appears archaic does not seem to be a good reason).
Only maintainer having their tree on a trusted host can send pull requests without attaching the patches (we do send pull requests along with the patches exactly for this reason..).
And actually git also provides many comfortable commands to do that :) so...! :)
Cheers,