Dan Milstein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I'm having a problem using Bugzilla, and I'm hoping someone can point me
> towards an easy solution.
>
> When people post bug reports, they often include patches in the text of the
> description (which is great). However, it's very difficult for me to get
> those patches into a file so that I can run the patch program to use them.
> Cut and paste does all kinds of weird line truncation things (which makes
> patch lose it's mind), and if you try to view source, there are all kinds of
> HTML escape codes.
>
> It's sort of like the Bugzilla system expects people to "attach" their
> proposed patches (which I could then download). But no one ever does
> (understandably).
>
> Am I missing a way to get the description saved as text without any HTML
> escapes? Or can we add something to the bug submission form to encourage
> people to attach their patches rather than paste them in?
Nope... For patches you're supposed to use Attachments... (Pity)... I don't
know what's in the database, though... We might be able to get it out with a
simple SQL query (any volunteer? :)
Pier
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