From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Wesley J. Landaker" Subject: Re: How do gmail users try out patches from this list? Date: Tue, 11 Aug 2009 19:17:17 -0600 Organization: icecavern.net Message-ID: <200908111917.19267.wjl@icecavern.net> References: <2729632a0908111343v73fa475fqb6353dcf2f718101@mail.gmail.com> <20090811221408.GC12956@vidovic> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: skillzero@gmail.com, git@vger.kernel.org To: Nicolas Sebrecht X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Wed Aug 12 03:17:36 2009 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 1Mb2T8-000702-Gg for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Wed, 12 Aug 2009 03:17:34 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755084AbZHLBR0 (ORCPT ); Tue, 11 Aug 2009 21:17:26 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754712AbZHLBRZ (ORCPT ); Tue, 11 Aug 2009 21:17:25 -0400 Received: from rinoa.icecavern.net ([92.243.7.152]:42161 "EHLO icecavern.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754495AbZHLBRZ (ORCPT ); Tue, 11 Aug 2009 21:17:25 -0400 Received: from chocobo.localnet (c-76-113-110-228.hsd1.nm.comcast.net [76.113.110.228]) by icecavern.net (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 9EBA635A2B; Wed, 12 Aug 2009 03:17:22 +0200 (CEST) User-Agent: KMail/1.11.2 (Linux/2.6.28-15-generic; KDE/4.2.2; i686; ; ) In-Reply-To: <20090811221408.GC12956@vidovic> Content-Disposition: inline Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Tuesday 11 August 2009 16:14:08 Nicolas Sebrecht wrote: > The 11/08/09, skillzero@gmail.com wrote: > > Sorry if this is dumb question, but I didn't see any good info in my > > searches. > > > > How do gmail users normally apply patches that come through the list? > > It doesn't rely on your address mail provider but on your local email > workflow/MUA. I'm not in this situation, but my guess is that a lot of people use gmail primarily through the web interface (e.g. because of corporate firewalls or some other reason). Maybe someone in that situation should make an new "git imap-am" command? Kind of the reverse to imap-send. Just a thought. =)