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Re: What do you use to receive mailed patches? (was: What do you use to send git patches?)

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Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Date
Sep 5, 2008, 14:30 UTC
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Dnia piątek 5. września 2008 16:15, Marc-André Lureau napisał:
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> On Fri, Sep 5, 2008 at 5:10 PM, Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> If somebody could explain how they handle the git send-mail patches
>>> they recieve, I would be thankful. How do you create .mbox files? What
>>> is your workflow when you deal with mails?
>>
>> I almost always use git-format-patch to generate patches (some people
>> use git-show or git-diff for proof-of-concept patches), and either use
>> git-send-email (I have sendmail configured to send mails via GMail,
>> but my computer is single-user machine; you can try sendemail.smpt*
>> options instead, if you have appropriate Perl modules installed), or
>> use KMail: Message> Insert file, ensuring that in Options I have Word
>> wrapping turned off.
>>
>> In some rare case I used 'stg mail' (also via properly configured
>> sendmail).
> 
> My question was about handling the patches you receive. Sending
> configuration is quite easy.
Sorry, my mistake.

Handling received patches is even simpler. In KMail/KNode us Save As (with .txt or .patch extension), the "git am --3way <file>" (or, but only once, "stg import -m < <file>").

-- 
Jakub Narebski
Poland
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