From: Daniele Segato Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2013 18:16:03 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCHv3] git-tag man: when to use lightweight or annotated tags Message-ID: <51F6B163.8000605@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <51F3B2D1.2040402@googlemail.com> On 07/27/2013 01:45 PM, Stefan Beller wrote: > 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