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Re: git-format-patch little gripe

From
Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date
Nov 25, 2006, 15:39 UTC
Message-ID
<20061125153949.GA11136@coredump.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To
<20061125103033.2ea742d3.seanlkml@sympatico.ca>
On Sat, Nov 25, 2006 at 10:30:33AM -0500, Sean wrote:
> If your mail setup support imap, the patches can be dumped directly into
> it rather than having to go through an mbox.  For instance you can have
> something like this in your ~/.gitconfig:

Sure, I could. But if you have a client which supports mboxes, it's probably better to use the mbox. With your solution, I send the patch to the imap server, then fire up the mail client and re-download the patch, possibly mark it up, and then send it out by smtp. The latency increase can be noticeable, especially for big patches and slow imap servers.

> To move all the patches into your imap drafts folder to be accessed
> by whatever email client you use.
Oh come on, Real Men just edit the mbox in vi. :)
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