From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ryan Anderson Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add SubmittingPatches Date: Mon, 15 Aug 2005 23:28:11 -0400 Message-ID: <20050816032811.GI7001@mythryan2.michonline.com> References: <7vslxep5jq.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> <7vk6imr7x0.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Junio C Hamano , git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Tue Aug 16 05:29:47 2005 Return-path: Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1E4s7h-00053r-5D for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Tue, 16 Aug 2005 05:28:21 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S965085AbVHPD2P (ORCPT ); Mon, 15 Aug 2005 23:28:15 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S965086AbVHPD2P (ORCPT ); Mon, 15 Aug 2005 23:28:15 -0400 Received: from mail.autoweb.net ([198.172.237.26]:30096 "EHLO mail.autoweb.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S965085AbVHPD2P (ORCPT ); Mon, 15 Aug 2005 23:28:15 -0400 Received: from pcp01184054pcs.strl301.mi.comcast.net ([68.60.186.73] helo=michonline.com) by mail.autoweb.net with esmtp (Exim 4.44) id 1E4s7Y-0000T5-Bz; Mon, 15 Aug 2005 23:28:12 -0400 Received: from mythical ([10.254.251.11] ident=Debian-exim) by michonline.com with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1E4s7X-0004gY-00; Mon, 15 Aug 2005 23:28:11 -0400 Received: from ryan by mythical with local (Exim 4.52) id 1E4s7X-00082s-3T; Mon, 15 Aug 2005 23:28:11 -0400 To: Johannes Schindelin Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org On Tue, Aug 16, 2005 at 03:41:04AM +0200, Johannes Schindelin wrote: > On Mon, 15 Aug 2005, Junio C Hamano wrote: > > > Johannes Schindelin writes: > > > > > Maybe we should enhance git-applymbox to detect whitespace corruption in > > > particular, and output the User-Agent header (or if that does not > > > exist, the Message-ID header; thanks, pine) on error. > > > > Alternatively, SubmittingPatches could include a big fat CAVEAT, and a > note that the submitter might want to send a single SP to herself, save > the received mail and check that all is well, prior to sending the first > patch. I mean, well, erm, it is sort of, uh, annoying, to send out a > corrupt patch *speaksofyourstruly*. If you have some trouble sending them out, you can use git format-patch --mbox and git send-email which seems to consistently do the right thing. -- Ryan Anderson sometimes Pug Majere