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Re: Using thunderbird to post/apply patches?

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Martin Langhoff <martin.langhoff@gmail.com>
Date
Feb 7, 2008, 23:42 UTC
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On Feb 8, 2008 12:34 PM, Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> wrote:
> The "Thunderbird" section in Documentation/SubmittingPatches should help
> here.

If that's state-of-the-art then thunderbird hasn't gotten any better since I last tried. Shame.

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> >  - Feed an email I am reading to git-apply-mbox so that if it's
> > reasonably formatted as a patch it will do the right thing and apply
> > it.
>
> Recently, git-am learnt to apply mails in maildir format.  Thunderbird
> uses maildir format internally, if I am not mistaken.

It uses mbox - but the delimiter is somewhat broken, so sometimes git-am fails to split the emails correctly.

A pretty sad story overall. Grumble...
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  1. Martin LanghoffFeb 7, 2008
  2. Johannes SchindelinFeb 7, 2008
  3. Martin LanghoffFeb 7, 2008
  4. Johannes SchindelinFeb 8, 2008
  5. Martin LanghoffFeb 8, 2008
  6. Brandon CaseyFeb 7, 2008
  7. Jay SoffianFeb 8, 2008
  8. Junio C HamanoFeb 8, 2008
  9. Johannes SchindelinFeb 8, 2008

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