Hi Dave, The issue is because GMail and some email servers/clients will convert the patch to octet-stream, please see the discussion here:
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/INFRA-19691 BR, Alan On 1/27/20, Dave Marples <d...@marples.net> wrote: > >> Our workflow document already instructs users to send their patches with >> a >> .txt extension because of this issue. >> >> I just noticed that the git command given there doesn't correspond to >> that. >> I will fix that when I get to my computer soon. (I use 'git format-patch >> master --stdout > your_file_name_here.txt'; I don't know if there's >> another >> way that requires less typing.) >> >> That's all we can do on our end. It would take an act of Infra to change >> that. >> >> Nathan >> > Probably not a good idea to walk back in the door and start moaning, but > why is that a problem? If it's wrong, then it's wrong...otherwise it's > one more little foible people have to know about to be able to work with > us. > > Regards > > DAVE > > >
