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From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Sending patches with KMail
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Jonathan Nieder wrote:

> My favorite approach would be to introduce a new option
> --format=plain|mbox, with the default being mbox, allowing
> format-patch --format=plain to produce a nice patch that does _not_
> include a "From " line or q-encode its header lines, ready for use
> without much tweaking in an email body as an attachment.

This should have said "ready for use in an email body or as an
attachment" (missing "or").  Sorry for the confusion.