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Re: Gmail and unwanted line-wrapping

From
David Aguilar <davvid@gmail.com>
Date
Feb 7, 2010, 00:24 UTC
Message-ID
<20100207002413.GA14744@gmail.com>
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<fabb9a1e1002061247k7a8fba5at4c687faac0dcabb8@mail.gmail.com>
On Sat, Feb 06, 2010 at 09:47:39PM +0100, Sverre Rabbelier wrote:
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> Heya,
> 
> On Sat, Feb 6, 2010 at 21:29, Aaron Crane <git@aaroncrane.co.uk> wrote:
> > Can anyone think of anything I might have done wrong here?  If not,
> > I'm inclined to suggest dropping all of that advice.  That's not
> > ideal, because it leaves Gmail users with no obvious way to submit
> > well-formatted patches to the list; but it's better than suggesting
> > something which apparently doesn't work.
> 
> I'm using git send-email with this configuration:
> [sendemail]
>   smtencryption = tls
>   smtpserver = smtp.gmai.com
>   smtpuser = srabbelier@gmail.com
>   smptserverport = 587
> 
> It'll ask you for your password when you're sending the emails. Like so:
> 
> $ git format-patch --no-color -C -M origin/master..topic-branch -o outgoing/
> $ git send-email --compose outgoing/00*
> 
> Of course you should substitute specific things as appropriate, I
> doubt you'll want to be sending your patches pretending to be me :P.
> 
> -- 
> Cheers,
> 
> Sverre Rabbelier
Great tip!

I've added it to the Git Wiki: http://git.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/GitTips#Using_gmail_to_send_your_patches

Good stuff,
-- 
		David
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  1. Aaron CraneFeb 6, 2010
  2. Sverre RabbelierFeb 6, 2010
  3. David AguilarFeb 7, 2010
  4. Jay SoffianFeb 7, 2010
  5. Jay SoffianFeb 7, 2010
  6. Erik Faye-LundFeb 8, 2010
  7. Jacob HelwigFeb 6, 2010
  8. Sverre RabbelierFeb 6, 2010

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