On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 09:46:42AM -0600, Eric Blake wrote: > > One remark up there, but no biggie. > > I had to hunt for that remark among 70k of verbatim patch. Not only is > it okay to trim portions of the patch that you are happy with, but > trimming actually helps focus on the problems. Just be sure you leave > enough context to help the readers pinpoint where the problem was (as I > did here, by including the @@ line at the start of the problematic hunk). I completely agree with your point, but if you have a good mutt colour setup, it is fairly easy to scan through large mails and distinguish new text vs quoted text at a glance. I even have some magic settings to highlight patches in email http://berrange.fedorapeople.org/mutt-patch-colour.jpeg In my .muttrc: # General colour settings color attachment brightmagenta black #color body white black color bold green black color header brightyellow black ^(From|Subject): color hdrdefault yellow black #color index white black #color indicator brightyellow red color indicator brightyellow red color markers brightcyan black color message brightcyan black color normal white black color quoted brightblue black color search green black color signature red black color status yellow blue color tilde magenta black color tree magenta black color underline green black # Patch file highlighting color body green black "^diff \-.*" color body green black "^index [a-f0-9].*" color body green black "^\-\-\- .*" color body green black "^[\+]{3} .*" color body cyan black "^[\+][^\+]+.*" color body red black "^\-[^\-]+.*" color body brightblue black "^@@ .*" Daniel -- |: http://berrange.com -o- http://www.flickr.com/photos/dberrange/ :| |: http://libvirt.org -o- http://virt-manager.org :| |: http://autobuild.org -o- http://search.cpan.org/~danberr/ :| |: http://entangle-photo.org -o- http://live.gnome.org/gtk-vnc :| -- libvir-list mailing list libvir-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvir-list