On 06/17/2011 10:08 AM, Brandon Casey wrote: > On 06/17/2011 09:45 AM, Michael Mc Donnell wrote: >> On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 4:14 PM, Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> wrote: >>> On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 03:35:04PM +0200, Michael Mc Donnell wrote: > >>> How do you download and apply the patch exactly? If you are speaking >>> imap to gmail, generally the client would strip out the CR's from the >>> mail. >> >> I'm just downloading it with Chrome. >> >> Steps to reproduce: >> 1. Upload patch via: >> $ git format-patch --stdout --keep-subject --attach origin | git imap-send Wait a second. You used --attach. >> 2. Open Gmail in Chrome. >> 3. Open email in drafts folder. >> 4. Click attachment download link Then you downloaded the attachment, which should be a _patch_. >> 5. Apply patch on a fresh branch with git apply. Well, scratch what I said before, you were correct in using git apply. Shouldn't the attachment have it's content preserved exactly? Maybe the fault does belong to gmail. -Brandon -- 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