On 20:29 Sat 06 Feb , Aaron Crane wrote: > Documentation/SubmittingPatches says this about dealing with Gmail's > propensity for breaking your email: > > > GMail does not appear to have any way to turn off line wrapping in the web > > interface, so this will mangle any emails that you send. You can however > > use any IMAP email client to connect to the google imap server, and forward > > the emails through that. Just make sure to disable line wrapping in that > > email client. Alternatively, use "git send-email" instead. > > > > Submitting properly formatted patches via Gmail is simple now that > > IMAP support is available. First, edit your ~/.gitconfig to specify your > > account settings: > <snip> > > Next, ensure that your Gmail settings are correct. In "Settings" the > > "Use Unicode (UTF-8) encoding for outgoing messages" should be checked. > > > > Once your commits are ready to send to the mailing list, run the following > > command to send the patch emails to your Gmail Drafts folder. > > > > $ git format-patch -M --stdout origin/master | git imap-send > > > > Go to your Gmail account, open the Drafts folder, find the patch email, fill > > in the To: and CC: fields and send away! > > However, the advice beginning "Submitting properly formatted patches > via Gmail is simple now" doesn't match my experience. Following those > guidelines seemed to work, but my patch was line-wrapped anyway. > > It seems I'm not the only person who's observed this: > http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/133020 > > Can anyone think of anything I might have done wrong here? If not, > I'm inclined to suggest dropping all of that advice. That's not > ideal, because it leaves Gmail users with no obvious way to submit > well-formatted patches to the list; but it's better than suggesting > something which apparently doesn't work. > > -- > Aaron Crane ** http://aaroncrane.co.uk/ I don't use the web interface at all, when I want to send out patches using GMail (we use Google Apps for Business at $day_job). I just use "git send-email" and send the patch(es) out straight from the command line. There's a nice summary online [0] of how to get this setup with GMail. I don't get the handy address-book of the web interface, but I don't have to worry about line-wrapping. [0] http://morefedora.blogspot.com/2009/02/configuring-git-send-email-to-use-gmail.html -- Jacob Helwig -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html