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Re: failing to send patches to the list

From
Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date
Jul 13, 2007, 15:55 UTC
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<20070713155516.GA2712@sigill.intra.peff.net>
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<20070713093050.GA18001@lapse.madduck.net>
On Fri, Jul 13, 2007 at 11:30:50AM +0200, martin f krafft wrote:
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>   git format-patch -s --stdout | sendmail git@vger.kernel.org
> 
> Even though my mail server seems to have delivered them correctly:
> [...]
> they never made it onto the list.

vger will reject messages without a message-id. git-format-patch by default does not generate a message-id, so unless sendmail generates one on the fly, that is your problem.

In general, git-format-patch output is probably not suitable for direct sending...have you looked at git-send-email?

-Peff
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  2. git-svn patch faulty (was: failing to send patches to the list)martin f krafft, Jul 13, 2007
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  4. Alex RiesenJul 13, 2007
  5. martin f krafftJul 14, 2007
  6. Jeff KingJul 13, 2007
  7. martin f krafftJul 14, 2007
  8. Jakub NarebskiJul 14, 2007
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