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Re: [PATCH] Documentation/SubmittingPatches: fix Gmail workaround advice

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Feb 8, 2010, 17:42 UTC
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Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> writes:
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> Scratch that: it looks like it once did.
>
> http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/99721/focus=99775
>
> Tom, any clues?  Are you still able to avoid spurious line wrapping in
> gmail?

The example Tom cites $gmane/99759 does not have long enough lines to be linewrapped, so perhaps the problem was there from day one but was not noticed.

I just tried it myself (I don't even regularly use Gmail), following the procedure outlined in SubmittingPatches. It does look like Gmail web interface mangles longer lines in the message.

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  1. Documentation/SubmittingPatches: fix Gmail workaround adviceAaron Crane, Feb 7, 2010
  2. Jay SoffianFeb 7, 2010
  3. Junio C HamanoFeb 7, 2010
  4. Aaron CraneFeb 7, 2010
  5. Jonathan NiederFeb 7, 2010
  6. Jonathan NiederFeb 7, 2010
  7. Junio C HamanoFeb 8, 2010

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