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Re: sending git-format-patch files with mailx.

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Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date
Mar 30, 2006, 09:14 UTC
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"David Ho" <davidkwho@gmail.com> writes:
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> Very stupid question.
>
> I have patches created by git-format-patch.  However I suppose I can
> send it off directly using mailx, but I have a hard time figuring how
> this is done.
>
> Someone here can probably answer this in a second.
Perhaps:
	$ mailx -s 'my subject' upstream@maintainer.example.com
	~r 0001-my-patch.txt
(that's tilde r).

But I thought we had a command for that: git-send-email. I admit I haven't used it for anything real, though, since I do not have an upstream maintainer anymore.

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