>>>> "ms" == Michael Sperber
<sperber(a)informatik.uni-tuebingen.de> writes:
>>>> "Oscar" == Oscar Figueiredo
<Oscar.Figueiredo(a)di.epfl.ch> writes:
Oscar> I have the same comment as
Jan Vroonhof: patch files having
Oscar> an application/octet-stream type is not a bug it's
Oscar> definitely a feature. Patch files are input for the patch
Oscar> program not plain text.
Uh, application/octet-stream isn't input for the patch program either.
It's "I don't know what this is so don't blindly pass it to any agent
that doesn't get higher grades on the Turing test than the human
running it."
ms> Input for the patch program *is* plain text. More
ms> specifically, patches sent to xemacs-patches are *primarily*
ms> text because someone needs to read them before patch ever gets
ms> to chew on them.
Exactly.