From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jonathan Nieder Subject: Re: [PATCH] Documentation/SubmittingPatches: fix Gmail workaround advice Date: Sun, 7 Feb 2010 15:54:28 -0600 Message-ID: <20100207215311.GA2177@progeny.tock> References: <1265555642-40204-1-git-send-email-git@aaroncrane.co.uk> <7v8wb4gaef.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Cc: Junio C Hamano , git@vger.kernel.org, Sverre Rabbelier , Jacob Helwig , David Aguilar , Jay Soffian , John Tapsell To: Aaron Crane X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Sun Feb 07 22:55:08 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NeF5v-0005Z5-5B for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Sun, 07 Feb 2010 22:55:07 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754878Ab0BGVyi convert rfc822-to-quoted-printable (ORCPT ); Sun, 7 Feb 2010 16:54:38 -0500 Received: from mail-iw0-f183.google.com ([209.85.223.183]:37017 "EHLO mail-iw0-f183.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753274Ab0BGVyh (ORCPT ); Sun, 7 Feb 2010 16:54:37 -0500 Received: by iwn13 with SMTP id 13so4202936iwn.25 for ; Sun, 07 Feb 2010 13:54:36 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:date:from:to:cc:subject :message-id:references:mime-version:content-type:content-disposition :content-transfer-encoding:in-reply-to:user-agent; bh=SMOMCKAbk+6y/YTxLoCglVP4q5yAvd8yiCX3MoX47l4=; b=VX+Rl9p51vld5gXv93WmT6YJZQ0VajgS9mLB2hFxZeU/+oyzSApkx5gTyVZrvjKOes o/ZqZCPg2U9jPc3YBPeTp7WBSSFNWOuFjF0Iy/mQr+GFHgpa+wXETpyrE/+FvwtctKmD 0wd8Tf+HiGXvzvxSy3H4p/OKMv9XxRKobgMbs= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=date:from:to:cc:subject:message-id:references:mime-version :content-type:content-disposition:content-transfer-encoding :in-reply-to:user-agent; b=o+TclV+JqES3Hj+/TW4TznGGF1xsjNN/Nfw0k/LlhXgtcI088qwpRPMw8Uiz1B/qvZ wbERy7OEi4gcmqqIChIYUVcnhA+IbpHSANgQUD/Jb37bCwHFU8MqakL2pbfIko3H65I3 8dDigzWZQsHarFyHzqtJP8gxluUo2Kzt8SJsc= Received: by 10.231.143.148 with SMTP id v20mr2425672ibu.14.1265579676879; Sun, 07 Feb 2010 13:54:36 -0800 (PST) Received: from progeny.tock (wireless-205-208-124-228.uchicago.edu [205.208.124.228]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 23sm3753851iwn.11.2010.02.07.13.54.35 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Sun, 07 Feb 2010 13:54:36 -0800 (PST) Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Aaron Crane wrote: > Junio C Hamano wrote: >> What I am trying to get at is to see if the current imap-send sugges= tion >> is fundamentally unworkable with gmail. =A0Perhaps they stopped supp= orting >> imap. =A0Perhaps the procedure never worked. > > As far as I can determine, the current imap-send suggestion is > fundamentally unworkable with gmail at the moment. I don't know > whether it ever used to work, though I've been assuming that it did. I think it still works, or depending on your perspective, it never did. As John Tapsell wrote in SubmittingPatches (commit 50dffd4e, 2009-02-19= ): | GMail does not appear to have any way to turn off line wrapping in th= e web | interface, so this will mangle any emails that you send. You can how= ever | use any IMAP email client to connect to the google imap server, and f= orward | the emails through that. Just make sure to disable line wrapping in = that | email client. Alternatively, use "git send-email" instead. I am not sure what that means about what SubmittingPatches should say: should it explain both methods, then? If I were doing it, I would put the information in the git-imap-send an= d git-send-mail man pages as examples. That way, it would be visible for people submitting patches to _other_ projects, too. The section in Documentation/SubmittingPatches could be replaced with a pointer. Jonathan