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  10                 <title>Time for an official MIME type for patches?</title>
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  13                 <pubDate>Thu, 1 Nov 2018 08:15:00 +0100</pubDate>
  14                 <description>&lt;p&gt;As part of my involvement in
  15 &lt;a href=&quot;https://gitlab.com/OsloMet-ABI/nikita-noark5-core&quot;&gt;the Nikita
  16 archive API project&lt;/a&gt;, I&#39;ve been importing a fairly large lump of
  17 emails into a test instance of the archive to see how well this would
  18 go.  I picked a subset of &lt;a href=&quot;https://notmuchmail.org/&quot;&gt;my
  19 notmuch email database&lt;/a&gt;, all public emails sent to me via
  20 @lists.debian.org, giving me a set of around 216 000 emails to import.
  21 In the process, I had a look at the various attachments included in
  22 these emails, to figure out what to do with attachments, and noticed
  23 that one of the most common attachment formats do not have
  24 &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.iana.org/assignments/media-types/media-types.xhtml&quot;&gt;an
  25 official MIME type&lt;/a&gt; registered with IANA/IETF.  The output from
  26 diff, ie the input for patch, is on the top 10 list of formats
  27 included in these emails.  At the moment people seem to use either
  28 text/x-patch or text/x-diff, but neither is officially registered.  It
  29 would be better if one official MIME type were registered and used
  30 everywhere.&lt;/p&gt;
  31
  32 &lt;p&gt;To try to get one official MIME type for these files, I&#39;ve brought
  33 up the topic on
  34 &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/media-types&quot;&gt;the
  35 media-types mailing list&lt;/a&gt;.  If you are interested in discussion
  36 which MIME type to use as the official for patch files, or involved in
  37 making software using a MIME type for patches, perhaps you would like
  38 to join the discussion?&lt;/p&gt;
  39
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