From: Drew Northup <drew.northup@maine.edu>
Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2011 18:35:49 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] remove doubled words, e.g., s/to to/to/, and fix related typos
Message-ID: <1302719749.21047.6.camel@drew-northup.unet.maine.edu>
In-Reply-To: <87d3kq6tz7.fsf@rho.meyering.net>


On Wed, 2011-04-13 at 17:39 +0200, Jim Meyering wrote:
> I found that some doubled words had snuck back into projects from
> which I'd already removed them, so now there's a "syntax-check" makefile
> rule in gnulib to help prevent recurrence.  Running the command below
> spotted a few in git, too:
> 
> This patch is relative to "next".

Jim,
Try putting the output of git format-patch into your drafts folder, then
open that draft in your mail client. The output of format-patch isn't
meant to be pasted directly into a mail message.

> 
> >From d21d6f61bbeeba4a754cdcded66ca86a709695ee Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Jim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com>

<rest of submission removed>

The above tells me that you just dumped the output of format-patch into
your mail client. There is a full tutorial in
Documentation/SubmittingPatches in git.git.

-- 
-Drew Northup
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