From: "Jonathan del Strother" <maillist@steelskies.com>
To: "David Aguilar" <davvid@gmail.com>
Cc: "Git Mailing List" <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Sending patches via gmail
Date: Tue, 1 Apr 2008 11:51:38 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <57518fd10804010351x341ba728i69cfcad8f3909d6a@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <402731c90804010309w6a27d2d1t2df25ac41fff96b9@mail.gmail.com>
On Tue, Apr 1, 2008 at 11:09 AM, David Aguilar <davvid@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 4/1/08, Jonathan del Strother <maillist@steelskies.com> wrote:
>
>
> > I can't seem to send patches via gmail without it adding spurious line
> > breaks - eg http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/78407.
> > I thought this was supposed to be possible... All I'm doing is
> > copying the contents of my patch, then in Gmail, clicking Compose
> > Mail, make sure it's in Plain Text rather than Rich Formatting mode,
> > paste my patch, and moving the mail header lines out of the message
> > body.
> >
> > What am I missing?
> > Jonathan del Strother
>
>
>
> Try git send-email w/ msmtp:
> http://git.or.cz/gitwiki/GitTips#head-a015948617d9becbdc9836776f96ad244ba87cb8
>
...which seems to work ok, except for the fact that the From line in
my patch (the output of git format-patch) then appears at the top of
my message body in the resulting email (from git send-email).
Deleting the From line from the patch seems to make everything work as
expected. Any ideas what's going on there?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-04-01 10:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-04-01 9:49 Sending patches via gmail Jonathan del Strother
2008-04-01 10:09 ` David Aguilar
2008-04-01 10:51 ` Jonathan del Strother [this message]
2008-04-01 11:03 ` Jeff King
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