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

[Martin Geisler]

Matt Mackall <mpm at selenic.com> writes:

> On Fri, 2010-04-30 at 00:29 +0200, Martin Geisler wrote:
>> Matt Mackall <mpm at selenic.com> writes:
>> 
>> > On Thu, 2010-04-29 at 16:44 -0300, Elifarley Callado Coelho Cruz wrote:
>> >>
>> >> 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 forget what email client you are using, but it sounds like it's a
>> slightly broken one just like Gmail's web interface... I just did some
>> testing and Gmail will show a patch inline when it has Content-Type:
>> text/plain and Content-Dispostion: inline.
>
> Evolution. The problem is not display but reply. Inline attachments
> aren't quoted in replies by many (most?) MUAs.

Oh, I see... I had somehow not considered that they would be left out of
the reply. Now I finally understand why you're against the inline
attachments.

-- 
Martin Geisler

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