[tz] Patch use LHDT/LHST/LHHDT since HD HS DD DS are common practice [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

Timothy Arceri T.Arceri at bom.gov.au
Fri Apr 12 23:22:26 UTC 2013


From: Ian Abbott [abbotti at mev.co.uk]
Sent: Friday, 12 April 2013 8:50 PM

>On 2013-04-12 01:54, Timothy Arceri wrote:
>>> And I don't email, because I
>> don't know what the email client does with the file.
>>
>> I emailed the patch purely for easy review from those on the list.
>> This is common practice in open-source programming projects. The
>> source itself is not meant to be actually pulled out of the emails.

>You could attach the patch as well as they tend to get less mangled that
>way.  That's what ado does.

I thought about doing this but decided against it because anyone that receives this list as a digest will have the attachments scrubbed. 

>Either that, or learn to use "git send-email" which seems to do a good
>job of not mangling patches!

I did not realise git send-email could send out patch files I always assumed they were generated from the repository. Thanks for pointing this out.



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