From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thell Fowler Subject: What's a good setup for submitting patches to the list properly? Date: Wed, 19 Aug 2009 19:09:58 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII To: git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Thu Aug 20 02:10:34 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1MdvEe-0004UJ-Jg for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Thu, 20 Aug 2009 02:10:33 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753317AbZHTAKW (ORCPT ); Wed, 19 Aug 2009 20:10:22 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753050AbZHTAKW (ORCPT ); Wed, 19 Aug 2009 20:10:22 -0400 Received: from 216.38.49.125.servint.net ([216.38.49.125]:41656 "EHLO vps5.pyrapat.com" rhost-flags-OK-FAIL-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752389AbZHTAKV (ORCPT ); Wed, 19 Aug 2009 20:10:21 -0400 Received: from ip70-178-75-143.ks.ks.cox.net ([70.178.75.143] helo=GWPortableVCS.local) by vps5.pyrapat.com with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1MdvEV-0006fQ-5g for git@vger.kernel.org; Wed, 19 Aug 2009 19:10:23 -0500 X-X-Sender: almostautomated@GWPortableVCS User-Agent: Alpine 2.00 (DEB 1167 2008-08-23) X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - vps5.pyrapat.com X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - vger.kernel.org X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [47 12] / [47 12] X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - tbfowler.name X-Source: X-Source-Args: X-Source-Dir: Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Sorry for once again. I haven't been able to figure out a good setup for posting patches to the list correctly, perhaps someone could tell me where I'm going wrong. Alpine is setup to access git @ tbfowler.name with the 'postpone' folder being the 'Drafts' folder on the remote mail host, and a local mbox folder ~/mail/git Locally I prepped the emails using: git format-patch --cover-letter --full-index -n --in-reply-to=1249428804.2774.52.camel@GWPortableVCS --thread --signoff -6 --stdout>>~/mail/git http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/124834 Thinking that the cover letter would be in reply to a previous thread, and that the rest would show as a reply to that. After doing the format-patch, I went into Alpine's git folder selected the messages and saved them to the Drafts folder, then did 'compose' for each one, filling in the information I thought was needed. At that point, the msg list looked flat, so I opened Evolution Mail and looked at them there, they cascaded properly, so I sent them. Yet, now, looking on gmane each of the patch msgs is a top level post and the cover letter correctly posted as a reply to the previous thread. What could I have done/checked before sending to make sure that these would have posted properly? -- Thell