Editing Mbox (section)

== As a patch format ==
In [[open source]] development, it is common to send [[patch (Unix)|patches]] in the [[diff]] format to a [[mailing list]] for discussion. The diff format allows for irrelevant "headers", such as mbox data, to be added.<ref>{{cite web |title=Submitting patches: the essential guide to getting your code into the kernel — The Linux Kernel documentation |url=https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/v4.17/process/submitting-patches.html |website=www.kernel.org |access-date=2020-03-03 |archive-date=2019-10-27 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191027200648/https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/v4.17/process/submitting-patches.html |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Randal |first1=Allison |last2=Sugalski |first2=Dan |last3=Tötsch |first3=Leopold |title=Perl 6 Essentials |date=2003 |publisher=O'Reilly Media, Inc. |isbn=978-0-596-00499-6 |url=https://archive.org/details/perl6essentials0000rand |url-access=registration |page=[https://archive.org/details/perl6essentials0000rand/page/14 14] |chapter=Patch submission |language=en}}</ref> [[Version control system]]s like [[git]] have support for generating mbox-formatted patches and for sending them to the list as emails in a thread.<ref>{{cite web |title=Git - git-format-patch Documentation |url=https://git-scm.com/docs/git-format-patch |website=git-scm.com |access-date=2020-03-03 |archive-date=2020-03-07 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200307091330/https://git-scm.com/docs/git-format-patch |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Git - git-send-email Documentation |url=https://git-scm.com/docs/git-send-email |website=git-scm.com |access-date=2020-03-03 |archive-date=2020-02-21 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200221160736/https://git-scm.com/docs/git-send-email |url-status=live }}</ref>