Re: Sending patches via gmail

From: Jonathan del Strother <maillist@steelskies.com>
Date: Apr 1, 2008, 10:51 UTC
Message-ID: <57518fd10804010351x341ba728i69cfcad8f3909d6a@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <402731c90804010309w6a27d2d1t2df25ac41fff96b9@mail.gmail.com>

On Tue, Apr 1, 2008 at 11:09 AM, David Aguilar <davvid@gmail.com> wrote:

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

...which seems to work ok, except for the fact that the From line in my patch (the output of git format-patch) then appears at the top of my message body in the resulting email (from git send-email). Deleting the From line from the patch seems to make everything work as expected. Any ideas what's going on there?