Re: [PATCH] Add SubmittingPatches
On Tue, Aug 16, 2005 at 03:41:04AM +0200, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
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> On Mon, 15 Aug 2005, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>
> > Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes:
> >
> > > Maybe we should enhance git-applymbox to detect whitespace corruption in
> > > particular, and output the User-Agent header (or if that does not
> > > exist, the Message-ID header; thanks, pine) on error.
> >
>
> Alternatively, SubmittingPatches could include a big fat CAVEAT, and a
> note that the submitter might want to send a single SP to herself, save
> the received mail and check that all is well, prior to sending the first
> patch. I mean, well, erm, it is sort of, uh, annoying, to send out a
> corrupt patch *speaksofyourstruly*.
If you have some trouble sending them out, you can use
git format-patch --mbox
and
git send-email
which seems to consistently do the right thing.
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Ryan Anderson
sometimes Pug Majere