Re: Gmail and unwanted line-wrapping

[Jacob Helwig <jacob.helwig@gmail.com>]

On 20:29 Sat 06 Feb     , Aaron Crane wrote:
> Documentation/SubmittingPatches says this about dealing with Gmail's
> propensity for breaking your email:
> 
> > GMail does not appear to have any way to turn off line wrapping in the web
> > interface, so this will mangle any emails that you send.  You can however
> > use any IMAP email client to connect to the google imap server, and forward
> > the emails through that.  Just make sure to disable line wrapping in that
> > email client.  Alternatively, use "git send-email" instead.
> >
> > Submitting properly formatted patches via Gmail is simple now that
> > IMAP support is available. First, edit your ~/.gitconfig to specify your
> > account settings:
> <snip>
> > Next, ensure that your Gmail settings are correct. In "Settings" the
> > "Use Unicode (UTF-8) encoding for outgoing messages" should be checked.
> >
> > Once your commits are ready to send to the mailing list, run the following
> > command to send the patch emails to your Gmail Drafts folder.
> >
> >         $ git format-patch -M --stdout origin/master | git imap-send
> >
> > Go to your Gmail account, open the Drafts folder, find the patch email, fill
> > in the To: and CC: fields and send away!
> 
> However, the advice beginning "Submitting properly formatted patches
> via Gmail is simple now" doesn't match my experience.  Following those
> guidelines seemed to work, but my patch was line-wrapped anyway.
> 
> It seems I'm not the only person who's observed this:
> http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/133020
> 
> Can anyone think of anything I might have done wrong here?  If not,
> I'm inclined to suggest dropping all of that advice.  That's not
> ideal, because it leaves Gmail users with no obvious way to submit
> well-formatted patches to the list; but it's better than suggesting
> something which apparently doesn't work.
> 
> -- 
> Aaron Crane ** http://aaroncrane.co.uk/

I don't use the web interface at all, when I want to send out patches
using GMail (we use Google Apps for Business at $day_job).  I just use
"git send-email" and send the patch(es) out straight from the command
line.  There's a nice summary online [0] of how to get this setup with
GMail.

I don't get the handy address-book of the web interface, but I don't
have to worry about line-wrapping.

[0] http://morefedora.blogspot.com/2009/02/configuring-git-send-email-to-use-gmail.html

-- 
Jacob Helwig