We keep getting mangled submissions from GMail's web interface. Try to be more proactive in SubmittingPatches by - pointing to MUA specific instructions early on, - structuring the GMail section more clearly, - putting send-email/SMTP before imap-send/IMAP. Signed-off-by: Michael J Gruber <git@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- Documentation/SubmittingPatches | 40 ++++++++++++++++++++------------------ 1 files changed, 21 insertions(+), 19 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/SubmittingPatches b/Documentation/SubmittingPatches index 8db22ef..b9204c7 100644 --- a/Documentation/SubmittingPatches +++ b/Documentation/SubmittingPatches @@ -41,6 +41,7 @@ Checklist (and a short version for the impatient): maintainer (gitster@xxxxxxxxx) if (and only if) the patch is ready for inclusion. If you use git-send-email(1), please test it first by sending email to yourself. + - see below for instructions specific to your mailer Long version: @@ -546,9 +547,27 @@ Gmail 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 +use "git send e-mail" and send your patches through the GMail SMTP server, or +use any IMAP email client to connect to the google IMAP server and forward the emails through that. +To use "git send-email" and send your patches through the GMail SMTP server, +edit ~/.gitconfig to specify your account settings: + +[sendemail] + smtpencryption = tls + smtpserver = smtp.gmail.com + smtpuser = user@xxxxxxxxx + smtppass = p4ssw0rd + smtpserverport = 587 + +Once your commits are ready to be sent to the mailing list, run the +following commands: + + $ git format-patch --cover-letter -M origin/master -o outgoing/ + $ edit outgoing/0000-* + $ git send-email outgoing/* + To submit using the IMAP interface, first, edit your ~/.gitconfig to specify your account settings: @@ -564,8 +583,7 @@ You might need to instead use: folder = "[Google Mail]/Drafts" if you get an err that the "Folder doesn't exist". Once your commits are ready to be sent to the mailing list, run the -following command to send the patch emails to your Gmail Drafts -folder. +following commands: $ git format-patch --cover-letter -M --stdout origin/master | git imap-send @@ -573,19 +591,3 @@ Just make sure to disable line wrapping in the email client (GMail web interface will line wrap no matter what, so you need to use a real IMAP client). -Alternatively, you can use "git send-email" and send your patches -through the GMail SMTP server. edit ~/.gitconfig to specify your -account settings: - -[sendemail] - smtpencryption = tls - smtpserver = smtp.gmail.com - smtpuser = user@xxxxxxxxx - smtppass = p4ssw0rd - smtpserverport = 587 - -Once your commits are ready to be sent to the mailing list, run the -following commands: - - $ git format-patch --cover-letter -M origin/master -o outgoing/ - $ git send-email outgoing/* -- 1.7.1.342.g1c280 -- 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