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Subject: Re: Using thunderbird to post/apply patches?
Date: Fri, 8 Feb 2008 12:42:09 +1300
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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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