Also add a comment that the web interface wraps the lines Signed-off-by: John Tapsell <johnflux@xxxxxxxxx> --- Documentation/SubmittingPatches | 10 +++++++++- 1 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/SubmittingPatches b/Documentation/SubmittingPatches index 9b559ad..aa41c9e 100644 --- a/Documentation/SubmittingPatches +++ b/Documentation/SubmittingPatches @@ -491,12 +491,18 @@ message, complete the addressing and subject fields, and press send. 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 +the emails through that. Just make sure to disable line wrapping in that +email client. + Submitting properly formatted patches via Gmail is simple now that IMAP support is available. First, edit your ~/.gitconfig to specify your account settings: [imap] - folder = "[Gmail]/Drafts" + folder = "[Google Mail]/Drafts" host = imaps://imap.gmail.com user = user@xxxxxxxxx pass = p4ssw0rd @@ -513,3 +519,5 @@ command to send the patch emails to your Gmail Drafts folder. Go to your Gmail account, open the Drafts folder, find the patch email, fill in the To: and CC: fields and send away! +If you get an error that the "Folder doesn't exist" try with folder = "[Gmail]/Drafts". + -- 1.6.2.rc1 -- 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
