From: "Catalin Marinas" <catalin.marinas@gmail.com>
To: "Karl Hasselström" <kha@treskal.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [StGit PATCH] Tutorial: Importing patches
Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2008 22:09:52 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <b0943d9e0810281509r109ee2dby51ee13a250700012@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20081028204223.9539.89315.stgit@yoghurt>
Hi Karl,
Thanks for the patch.
2008/10/28 Karl Hasselström <kha@treskal.com>:
> +Importing a patch from an e-mail is simple too:
> +
> + $ stg import --mail my-mail
> +
> +The e-mail should be in standard Git mail format (which is what e.g.
> +stglink:mail[] produces) -- that is, with the patch in-line in the
> +mail, not attached. The authorship info is taken from the mail
> +headers, and the commit message is read from the 'Subject:' line and
> +the mail body.
It actually supports importing diffs from attachments as well as long
as they are text/plain (the description is expected in the mail body).
Anyway, I think we don't have to mention this in the tutorial as most
people would use the Git mail format anyway.
--
Catalin
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-10-28 22:11 UTC|newest]
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2008-10-28 20:42 [StGit PATCH] Tutorial: Importing patches Karl Hasselström
2008-10-28 22:09 ` Catalin Marinas [this message]
2008-10-29 10:28 ` Karl Hasselström
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