[X2Go-Dev] [PATCH] Remove redundant tool "socket-sucker"

Jan Engelhardt jengelh at inai.de
Sun Nov 11 18:34:40 CET 2012


On Sunday 2012-11-11 14:01, Nable 80 wrote:

>1. There is also netcat (nc) and i'm in doubt what is more widespread
>in basic system installation: netcat or socat.

It is not about what is most spread, but what actually makes sense.

netcat in comparison is messy - https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/8/1/243


>2. It's better to use `git format-patch' and attach generated files
>(see "man git-format-patch", it's really easy).

I did use git format-patch (by way of git send-email), see the X-Mailer 
header. What generated file should be attached? Remember also that (a) 
attachments are frowned upon and (b) I hear git-am is very pesky in 
processing mails not in the format of {verbatim format-patch text}.



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