Re: [PATCHv3] git-tag man: when to use lightweight or annotated tags

From: Stefan Beller <stefanbeller@googlemail.com>
Date: Jul 27, 2013, 11:45 UTC
Message-ID: <51F3B2D1.2040402@googlemail.com>
In-Reply-To: <720060083F5C476A905C09146E7CD711@PhilipOakley>

On 07/27/2013 01:26 PM, Philip Oakley wrote:

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> Try 'git format-patch' and 'git send-email'. The format-patch man page
> even has a note about Thunderbird corruptions.
> 
> Philip
>

Well I use Thunderbird as well for regular communication except for sending patches. The kernel documentation has also some words about Thunderbird https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/Documentation/email-clients.txt

Given so many steps, I also configured git send-email, which makes sure that patches are uncorrupted. For gmail add these lines to your ~/.gitconfig

[sendemail]
        from = Your Name <emailaddress@gmail.com>
        smtpserver = /usr/bin/msmtp
        smtpuser = emailaddress
        smtpencryption = tls
        chainreplyto = false
        confirm = auto

Then you'd need to have msmtp installed and have the following in the file ~/.msmtprc

# Example for a user configuration file # Set default values for all following accounts. defaults tls on tls_trust_file /usr/share/ncat/ca-bundle.crt logfile ~/.msmtp.log # My email service account gmail host smtp.gmail.com port 587 from emailaddress@gmail.com auth on user emailaddress@gmail.com password mysecret account default : gmail

I think it would also work without having git relying on msmtp by now, but I'd be too lazy to change my existing working setup.

Stefan