Re: git-send-email

[Eli Zaretskii]

On June 15, 2020 9:59:59 AM GMT+03:00, Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org> 
wrote:
> On Jun 15 2020, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> 
> > We accept and welcome patches in any form and shape.  However, we
> > recommend to use "git format-patch" (see CONTRIBUTE),
> 
> Which is exactly what he did.

No, he did not.  He said that much: he used "git send-email".

You are hinting that "git send-email" runs format-patch internally, for some 
variants of its command-line arguments.  But that is not what CONTRIBUTE says 
about using "git send-email", and for a good reason: doing it the CONTRIBUTE 
way produces email messages that are easily recognizable as being fit for "git 
am", and don't require tedious and error-prone manual analysis to make sure it 
is not just diffs pasted into the email body.

We can discuss changes to CONTRIBUTE, but as long as it says something, let's 
try to act as it says.  We usually have good reasons for what it says.