On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 12:54 PM, Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Thu, 26 Mar 2009 11:22:26 +0200 > vasaka@xxxxxxxxx wrote: > > > On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 10:34 AM, Mauro Carvalho Chehab > > <mchehab@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > On Thu, 26 Mar 2009 01:19:08 +0200 > > > vasaka@xxxxxxxxx wrote: > > > > > >> Hello, > > >> > > >> how should I format my post in order to patchwork tool understand > > >> included patch correctly, > > > > > > If patchwork is not adding your patches there, then it means that the patches > > > are broken (for example, line-wrapped), or that you're attaching it, and your > > > emailer are using the wrong mime encoding type for diffs. > > > > > >> should I just format it like in v4l-dvb/README.patches described? > > >> then how should I add additional comments to the mail which I do not > > >> want to be in the patch log? > > > > > > All comments you add on your patch will be part of the commit message (except > > > for the meta-tags, like from:). > > > > > >> It seems it is possible without special comment symbols. > > > > > > > > > Cheers, > > > Mauro > > > > > > > can it be that patch made by > > $diff -uprN v4l-dvb.orig v4l-dvb.my > patch.patch > > and make commit in .my tree did not complain still broken? > > > > does gmail's web interface plain text mail composer has known issues, > > which can interfere with sending patches? > > I never used a web interface to send patches. Since patches should be sent > inline, and such interfaces do line wrapping, they aren't good for patch > submission. Well, i have never heard of such interface in gmail. If someone knows about it please let me know. > Also, probably, they'll encode the attachments with text/plain or > application/octet-stream, instead of the proper text/x-patch mime type. Vasily, may be this file can help you with mail clients linux/Documentation/email-clients.txt and instructions how to send patch correctly. For example, mutt and evolution works fine with gmail. -- Best regards, Klimov Alexey -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-media" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
