On 2008-02-25, Miklos Vajna <vmiklos@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> configured his stuff correctly, it's really "darcs get; ... ; darcs >> record; darcs send". git-send-email is nice, but harder to use for a >> first-timer. > > that's true, while the practice can be the opposite. darcs forces you to > have an smtpd on localhost, while git allows you to send the patch from > your mail client. this _is_ easier for people sometimes. (especially > these days when everybody blocks dhcp address ranges and an avarage user > doesn't configure a proxy smtpd on localhost usually i think.) Actually, both can do both, right? darcs send -o will write the data to send out to a file on disk, and git-send-email will transmit the message. I don't so much care about the default as making it easy for people that do have a local sendmail or smtpd or (ugh) MAPI client to send patches automatically, if I tell them what flags to use. -- John - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
