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Subject: Re: patch submission process, was Re: [PATCH v6 06/16] merge_recursive: abort properly upon errors
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Date:	Mon, 08 Aug 2016 10:22:20 -0700
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.20.1608071039410.5786@virtualbox> (Johannes
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Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes:

> I think you both got it wrong. The original citizens were the mail
> clients that allowed you to communicate with other human beings.
> ... It is our usage to transport machine-readable content (and not
> as an attachment!) that is the intruder.

It is not "its is our usage".

You are too young to remember or too old to remember the history, or
you are knowingly distorting it.  The original users of "patch" and
"diff" expected that e-mail to be a medium to safely exchange
changes to programs among themselves.