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From: Jim Cromie <jim.cromie@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: git send-email --body <file> ?
Date: Sat, 28 May 2011 12:22:16 -0600
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On Fri, May 27, 2011 at 1:56 PM, Jim Cromie <jim.cromie@gmail.com> wrot=
e:
> The perlbug tool is increasingly used by perl community to send patch=
es,
> it has options to save report (perlbug.rep by default)
>
> Ive started hacking it to use git send-email when used from inside th=
e git repo
> (theyve switched to git :-), and Id like to just use the file it writ=
es.
>
> I tried just passing file in as 1st arg, tool was unhappy:
>
> [jimc@groucho perl]$ git send-email --dry-run =A0perlbug.rep 0001-*
> fatal: perlbug.rep: 61: patch contains a line longer than 998 charact=
ers
> warning: no patches were sent
>

Nevermind.

perlbug was doing some odd stuff - it wasnt writing headers to saved fi=
le,
so when I went to send it, git-send-email complained.

Ive now hacked perlbug to call git-send-email $rptfile @patchfiles,
without --compose, and things work.

sorry for the noise.