From: "Martin Langhoff" <martin.langhoff@gmail.com>
To: "Johannes Schindelin" <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Cc: "Git Mailing List" <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Using thunderbird to post/apply patches?
Date: Fri, 8 Feb 2008 12:42:09 +1300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <46a038f90802071542j765a8501kc57b065f22c734b2@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LSU.1.00.0802072333120.11591@racer.site>
On Feb 8, 2008 12:34 PM, Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> wrote:
> The "Thunderbird" section in Documentation/SubmittingPatches should help
> here.
If that's state-of-the-art then thunderbird hasn't gotten any better
since I last tried. Shame.
> > - Feed an email I am reading to git-apply-mbox so that if it's
> > reasonably formatted as a patch it will do the right thing and apply
> > it.
>
> Recently, git-am learnt to apply mails in maildir format. Thunderbird
> uses maildir format internally, if I am not mistaken.
It uses mbox - but the delimiter is somewhat broken, so sometimes
git-am fails to split the emails correctly.
A pretty sad story overall. Grumble...
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-02-07 23:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-02-07 23:21 Using thunderbird to post/apply patches? Martin Langhoff
2008-02-07 23:34 ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-02-07 23:42 ` Martin Langhoff [this message]
2008-02-08 0:12 ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-02-08 4:27 ` Martin Langhoff
2008-02-07 23:44 ` Brandon Casey
2008-02-08 4:10 ` Jay Soffian
2008-02-08 7:26 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-02-08 11:38 ` Johannes Schindelin
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