Hello,
I've been playing around with git; made some simple patches for git and
thought I would forward them to the mailing list. I did this using
git-format-patch --stdout --signoff -M -B | git-imap-send
With the following in .gitconfig and courier-imap as the IMAP server.
[imap]
Folder = "INBOX.Drafts"
Tunnel = "ssh -q mailhost /usr/bin/imapd ./Maildir 2> /dev/null"
This appeared to work as expected. A nicely formatted patch appeared in my
drafts mailbox for checking and sending; which I did. However, those emails
caused a few problems; like:
"Can you please not send your emails to "unlisted recipients?" It
breaks my mail filtering and your mails don't end up going to my "git"
folder."
As far as I knew, I hadn't done this. The email looked fine when I checked it
in KMail. So, I went back and had a look at the raw source of the patch
email that I'd sent and found this:
From 0e3c0aefc3276bd271553d171ed9bcc52d85230e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Andy Parkins <andyparkins@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2006 15:24:40 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Use email address only for looking up signing key in git-tag
It's that first line that's the problem. It was generated by git-format-patch
of course, however, I assume that it was intended to be stripped on the way
to the IMAP server. So,
* Courier's /usr/bin/imapd should have stripped it and didn't
* git-imap-send shouldn't have sent it
Can anyone help me out with which it should be? Or point me at the relevant
RFC?
While I was poking around I found that git is hard coded with
printf("From %s Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001\n", sha1);
Was it intentional that the date be hard coded like that?
Andy
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Dr Andrew Parkins, M Eng (Hons), AMIEE
andyparkins@xxxxxxxxx
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