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

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Daniele Segato <daniele.segato@gmail.com>
Date
Jul 29, 2013, 18:16 UTC
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On 07/27/2013 01:45 PM, Stefan Beller wrote:
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> On 07/27/2013 01:26 PM, Philip Oakley wrote:
>
>> 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]
[snip]
>
> Then you'd need to have msmtp installed and have the following
> in the file ~/.msmtprc
[snip]
>
> 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.
>
Hi Paolo, Philip, Stefan,

thank you, you've been very kind. I think I've set it up, I'll try with the next patch, if any!

Regards, Daniele Segato

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Message 20 of 23 in “git tag usability issue: Lightweight vs Annotated confusion for the end user (ex. git describe default)”
  1. Daniele SegatoJul 24, 2013
  2. Junio C HamanoJul 24, 2013
  3. git-tag man: when to use lightweight or annotated tagsDaniele Segato, Jul 25, 2013
  4. Marc BranchaudJul 25, 2013
  5. Daniele SegatoJul 26, 2013
  6. Daniele SegatoJul 26, 2013
  7. Marc BranchaudJul 26, 2013
  8. Daniele SegatoJul 26, 2013
  9. Daniele SegatoJul 26, 2013
  10. Jeff KingJul 26, 2013
  11. Jonathan NiederJul 26, 2013
  12. Daniele SegatoJul 29, 2013
  13. Daniele SegatoAug 7, 2013
  14. Marc BranchaudJul 26, 2013
  15. Junio C HamanoJul 29, 2013
  16. Daniele SegatoJul 29, 2013
  17. Daniele SegatoJul 27, 2013
  18. Philip OakleyJul 27, 2013
  19. Stefan BellerJul 27, 2013
  20. Daniele SegatoJul 29, 2013
  21. Marc BranchaudJul 26, 2013
  22. Daniele SegatoJul 29, 2013
  23. Daniele SegatoJul 25, 2013

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