On 13/08/17 21:14, Christopher Li wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 13, 2017 at 3:31 PM, Luc Van Oostenryck
> <luc.vanoostenryck@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Chris,
>>
>> The patches you're sending are all whitespace damaged.
>> Not only these 4 ones the ones you sent before too.
>
> Yes, gmail tend to damage white space. That is why I send
> attachment before.
Looking at 'git help format-patch', we find:
...
MUA-SPECIFIC HINTS
Here are some hints on how to successfully submit patches inline using
various mailers.
GMail
GMail does not have any way to turn off line wrapping in the web
interface, so it will mangle any emails that you send. You can however
use "git send-email" 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.
For hints on using git send-email to send your patches through the
GMail SMTP server, see the EXAMPLE section of git-send-email(1).
For hints on submission using the IMAP interface, see the EXAMPLE
section of git-imap-send(1).
...
Also, from 'git help send-email':
...
EXAMPLE
Use gmail as the smtp server
To use git send-email to send your patches through the GMail SMTP
server, edit ~/.gitconfig to specify your account settings:
[sendemail]
smtpEncryption = tls
smtpServer = smtp.gmail.com
smtpUser = yourname@xxxxxxxxx
smtpServerPort = 587
If you have multifactor authentication setup on your gmail account, you
will need to generate an app-specific password for use with git
send-email. Visit
https://security.google.com/settings/security/apppasswords to setup an
app-specific password. Once setup, you can store it with the
credentials helper:
$ git credential fill
protocol=smtp
host=smtp.gmail.com
username=youname@xxxxxxxxx
password=app-password
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/*
Note: the following perl modules are required Net::SMTP::SSL,
MIME::Base64 and Authen::SASL
I have to say that I find GMail such a pain that it is not
worth using, but I know that _some_ people have actually
managed to get it to work ... ;-)
[The above documentation is just the start ...]
ATB,
Ramsay Jones
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