On Fri, 2011-01-28 at 13:05 +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > On Friday 28 January 2011, Richard Cochran wrote: > > I would like to get to the bottom of this. Here is what I did: > > > > 1. Saved your patch to disk in mbox format using Mutt. > > 2. git am > > 3. ... rebase, rebase, rebase, ... > > 4. git format-patch [options] 1234..abcd > > 5. Edit cover letter > > 6. for x in 00*; do mutt -H $x; done > > > > Git format-patch places the "From: John Stultz <john.stultz@xxxxxxxxxx>" > > line with the other mail headers, and so I guess mutt just faithfully > > preserves this. > > > > I don't like having to remember to fix this manually. There must be a > > better way... > > The problem is step 6. The output of git format-patch does not work when > sending with mutt. The easiest solution is to send with git send-email, > which does the same as mutt -H, but gets it right. I use: formail -s sendmail -t < patches.mbox, but then, I use quilt mail to generate the mbox, not git. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-api" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
