From: Ryan Anderson <ryan@michonline.com>
Date: Tue, 16 Aug 2005 03:28:11 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add SubmittingPatches
Message-ID: <20050816032811.GI7001@mythryan2.michonline.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0508160335420.1574@wgmdd8.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>

On Tue, Aug 16, 2005 at 03:41:04AM +0200, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> 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