From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Brandon Casey Subject: Re: Using thunderbird to post/apply patches? Date: Thu, 07 Feb 2008 17:44:44 -0600 Message-ID: <47AB97EC.8030002@nrlssc.navy.mil> References: <46a038f90802071521n674b61c2t5e4d4c740375b951@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Git Mailing List To: Martin Langhoff X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Fri Feb 08 00:45:39 2008 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 1JNGR1-0007NB-3d for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Fri, 08 Feb 2008 00:45:39 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758261AbYBGXpF (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 Feb 2008 18:45:05 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1758295AbYBGXpF (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 Feb 2008 18:45:05 -0500 Received: from mail1.nrlssc.navy.mil ([128.160.35.1]:57290 "EHLO mail.nrlssc.navy.mil" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1758204AbYBGXpD (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 Feb 2008 18:45:03 -0500 Received: from starfish.gems.nrlssc.navy.mil (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.nrlssc.navy.mil (8.13.7/8.13.7) with ESMTP id m17Nij35032382; Thu, 7 Feb 2008 17:44:45 -0600 Received: from tick.nrlssc.navy.mil ([128.160.25.48]) by starfish.gems.nrlssc.navy.mil with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.3959); Thu, 7 Feb 2008 17:44:44 -0600 User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.9 (X11/20071031) In-Reply-To: <46a038f90802071521n674b61c2t5e4d4c740375b951@mail.gmail.com> X-OriginalArrivalTime: 07 Feb 2008 23:44:44.0930 (UTC) FILETIME=[6ABCA620:01C869E3] X-TM-AS-Product-Ver: : ISVW-6.0.0.2339-5.0.0.1023-15706001 X-TM-AS-Result: : Yes--10.586800-0-1-1 X-TM-AS-Category-Info: : 1:0.000000 X-TM-AS-MatchedID: : =?us-ascii?B?MTUwNTY3LTcwMDA3NS0xMzkw?= =?us-ascii?B?MTAtNzA5NTg0LTcwMjA1MC03MDA2MTgtNzA0NzQ5LTE4NzA2Ny0x?= =?us-ascii?B?ODgwMTktNzA2NDU0LTcwMjc5MS03MDAxMTUtNzA0NDIxLTcwMjM1?= =?us-ascii?B?OC03MDU3MzMtNzAzNzg4LTEyMTU5NC03MDQ0MjUtNzAyMTQzLTcw?= =?us-ascii?B?MzkwNy03MDcyMjUtNzAwNDc2LTcwMTQ1NS03MDE0ODItNzAzODM1?= =?us-ascii?B?LTcwMDM1NS03MDIwNzktNzAxMzg0LTcwNTQ0MS03MDIwNDQtNzAy?= =?us-ascii?B?ODU3LTcwMTU0NC0xMDY0NzAtNzA4MjU3LTcwMDE1My0xNDgwMzkt?= =?us-ascii?B?MTQ4MDUxLTIwMDQy?= Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Martin Langhoff wrote: > Is there anyone using thunderbird/mozilla to post patches with > additional email commentary like Junio and Linus do? Are there good > tricks for this? Or otherwise a similar MUA that does things right? > > The 2 workflows I am after are... > > - Load up a patch created with git-format-patch into my email editor > to add some commentary before sending. Should not munge the patch > itself! I use git-send-email to first send the patch to myself. When it shows up in thunderbird, I Right-click and select "Edit As New..." Add my text, update the recipients, and voila. If you're replying to a previous message, you can get the Message-ID to supply to git-send-email by selecting View->Headers->All. Copy&Paste everything between the angle brackets. I have these options set in Edit->Preferences: Display->Formatting->Display emoticons as graphics: unchecked, it turns HEAD^2 into HEAD squared Composition->General->Wrap plain text messages at 0 characters ^ I also have mailnews.send_plaintext_flowed => false as suggested in SubmittingPatches. There is a different suggestion in that document you may want to read. > - 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. I just Right-click and Save As... cat | git am -brandon