From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Johannes Schindelin Subject: Re: Using thunderbird to post/apply patches? Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2008 23:34:06 +0000 (GMT) Message-ID: References: <46a038f90802071521n674b61c2t5e4d4c740375b951@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Cc: Git Mailing List To: Martin Langhoff X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Fri Feb 08 00:34:46 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 1JNGGO-0003yy-KN for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Fri, 08 Feb 2008 00:34:41 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932396AbYBGXeE (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 Feb 2008 18:34:04 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1761185AbYBGXeB (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 Feb 2008 18:34:01 -0500 Received: from mail.gmx.net ([213.165.64.20]:48740 "HELO mail.gmx.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1758504AbYBGXeA (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 Feb 2008 18:34:00 -0500 Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 07 Feb 2008 23:33:57 -0000 Received: from host86-138-198-40.range86-138.btcentralplus.com (EHLO racer.home) [86.138.198.40] by mail.gmx.net (mp057) with SMTP; 08 Feb 2008 00:33:57 +0100 X-Authenticated: #1490710 X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX19bFxRLSPRbx6N/bZQzr8kK82LDK+iNkr4IsX+aaY EA5FCSetfsOLiX X-X-Sender: gene099@racer.site In-Reply-To: <46a038f90802071521n674b61c2t5e4d4c740375b951@mail.gmail.com> User-Agent: Alpine 1.00 (LSU 882 2007-12-20) X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Hi, On Fri, 8 Feb 2008, 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! The "Thunderbird" section in Documentation/SubmittingPatches should help here. > - 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. Recently, git-am learnt to apply mails in maildir format. Thunderbird uses maildir format internally, if I am not mistaken. Hth, Dscho