Re: [StGit PATCH] Tutorial: Importing patches

From: Karl Hasselström <kha@treskal.com>
Date: Oct 29, 2008, 10:28 UTC
Message-ID: <20081029102814.GA30762@diana.vm.bytemark.co.uk>
In-Reply-To: <b0943d9e0810281509r109ee2dby51ee13a250700012@mail.gmail.com>

On 2008-10-28 22:09:52 +0000, Catalin Marinas wrote:

> 2008/10/28 Karl Hasselström <kha@treskal.com>:

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> > +The e-mail should be in standard Git mail format (which is what e.g.
> > +stglink:mail[] produces) -- that is, with the patch in-line in the
> > +mail, not attached. The authorship info is taken from the mail
> > +headers, and the commit message is read from the 'Subject:' line and
> > +the mail body.
>
> It actually supports importing diffs from attachments as well as
> long as they are text/plain (the description is expected in the mail
> body).

Yeah, I had a vague recollection that that might be the case, but the test suite doesn't cover it, and I've actually tried it a few times and it's never worked for me.

> Anyway, I think we don't have to mention this in the tutorial as
> most people would use the Git mail format anyway.

Yes.

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