From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thell Fowler Subject: Re: What's a good setup for submitting patches to the list properly? Date: Sat, 22 Aug 2009 10:01:22 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII To: git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Sat Aug 22 17:02:05 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 1Mes6T-0000km-Ea for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Sat, 22 Aug 2009 17:02:01 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755544AbZHVPBs (ORCPT ); Sat, 22 Aug 2009 11:01:48 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755354AbZHVPBr (ORCPT ); Sat, 22 Aug 2009 11:01:47 -0400 Received: from 216.38.49.125.servint.net ([216.38.49.125]:34587 "EHLO vps5.pyrapat.com" rhost-flags-OK-FAIL-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755329AbZHVPBr (ORCPT ); Sat, 22 Aug 2009 11:01:47 -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 1Mes6G-0008V5-7A for git@vger.kernel.org; Sat, 22 Aug 2009 10:01:48 -0500 X-X-Sender: almostautomated@GWPortableVCS In-Reply-To: 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: Thell Fowler (git@tbfowler.name) wrote on Aug 19, 2009: > 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 > Did I miss something with that command? > 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. > Perhaps the saving to a new folder could've messed something up with the headers? [snip] > What could I have done/checked before sending to make sure that these > would have posted properly? No input on this? Perhaps I should've posted to the git user or alpine lists? Either way, I'll be sending a new version of the patch I've been working on and rather than have them show as top posts again I'd rather do it correctly. Or perhaps there is an easier more direct route... -- Thell