[PATCH 2 of 3] acl: update doc string for branch-based access control

Brendan Cully brendan at kublai.com
Thu Apr 29 15:55:14 CDT 2010


On Thursday, 29 April 2010 at 15:44, Matt Mackall wrote:
> On Thu, 2010-04-29 at 16:44 -0300, Elifarley Callado Coelho Cruz wrote:
> > Not inlined ? Damn!
> > 
> > 
> > This is the command line I typed:
> > 
> > 
> > hg email -i -d -r 11039:11041 -s "support for branch-based access
> > control" --to mercurial-devel at selenic.com
> 
> Huh. So there's this sad situation:
> 
>  -a --attach       send patches as attachments
>  -i --inline       send patches as inline attachments
> 
> An "inline attachment" is a regular attachment that has a
> Content-Dispostion of "inline". And that's an entirely different thing
> from just sticking a patch in the body of a message.
> 
> I'm not even sure why we'd ever want to send a patch as an attachment
> that wasn't an inlined attachment. Perhaps we should merge the two
> options and deprecate the -i switch.

Patches that go through xen-devel have to _not_ be inlined, because
Exchange mangles whitespace on them otherwise. I rely on being able to
send these.


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