From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Bruce Stephens Subject: Thunderbird: issues with applying saved patches Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2008 15:16:30 +0100 Message-ID: <80y73kydvl.fsf@tiny.isode.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii To: git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Tue Jul 29 16:19:50 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1KNq2Q-0006bm-BK for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Tue, 29 Jul 2008 16:18:54 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756227AbYG2OQd (ORCPT ); Tue, 29 Jul 2008 10:16:33 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1756313AbYG2OQd (ORCPT ); Tue, 29 Jul 2008 10:16:33 -0400 Received: from rufus.isode.com ([62.3.217.251]:56784 "EHLO rufus.isode.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753678AbYG2OQc (ORCPT ); Tue, 29 Jul 2008 10:16:32 -0400 Received: from tiny.isode.net (shiny.isode.com [62.3.217.250]) by rufus.isode.com (smtp internal) via TCP with SMTP id for ; Tue, 29 Jul 2008 15:16:30 +0100 Received: by tiny.isode.net (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Tue, 29 Jul 2008 15:16:30 +0100 X-Hashcash: 1:20:080729:git@vger.kernel.org::WhI733OIzL74pmwq:0000000000000000000000000000000000000000001Kb1 User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.2 (gnu/linux) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: I can see comments and advice on how to *send* patches using Thunderbird, but for the most part we're not attempting that (we're using "git send-email"). However, we're (by "we" I mean those of my colleagues who use Thunderbird, obviously) finding occasional issues with saving patches from Thunderbird: "git am" complains that they're corrupt. I'm not sure that they are, but they're Quoted-printable encoded, and so perhaps not decoded quite correctly by git. Or perhaps they're invalidly encoded. I'm not sure that I care exactly what's at fault, though I think Thunderbird ought to be able to save an article exactly as it is (it appears to be encoding it using Quoted-printable). Anyway, I'm surprised I don't see anyone else mentioning this. Have I just missed it, or are we doing something silly (maybe there's some slightly non-obvious way of saving an article in Thunderbird)? Could be that other people just go to the message file or something. Someone tells me that he has no problems if he moves the article from the IMAP folder to a local folder and uses that. So maybe most people just don't notice (because they're not using IMAP)?