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Re: Sending patches via gmail

From
David Aguilar <davvid@gmail.com>
Date
Apr 1, 2008, 10:09 UTC
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<402731c90804010309w6a27d2d1t2df25ac41fff96b9@mail.gmail.com>
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<57518fd10804010249h4fe43bbfu64cf9576ca2edcf3@mail.gmail.com>
On 4/1/08, Jonathan del Strother <maillist@steelskies.com> wrote:
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> I can't seem to send patches via gmail without it adding spurious line
>  breaks -  eg http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/78407.
>   I thought this was supposed to be possible...  All I'm doing is
>  copying the contents of my patch, then in Gmail, clicking Compose
>  Mail, make sure it's in Plain Text rather than Rich Formatting mode,
>  paste my patch, and moving the mail header lines out of the message
>  body.
>
>  What am I missing?
>  Jonathan del Strother

Try git send-email w/ msmtp: http://git.or.cz/gitwiki/GitTips#head-a015948617d9becbdc9836776f96ad244ba87cb8

-- 
    David
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  3. Jonathan del StrotherApr 1, 2008
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