Re: gmail screws up patches looking for workable workaround
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Jacob Helwig <jacob.helwig@gmail.com>
- Date
- Feb 13, 2009, 18:11 UTC
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- <8c9a060902131011u5bc7d0dft4edc4adb1af1dad8@mail.gmail.com>
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On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 10:00, Caleb Cushing <xenoterracide@gmail.com> wrote:
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>> ~/.gitconfig >> [sendemail] >> smtpserver = smtp.gmail.com >> smtpserverport = 587 >> smtpuser = your.email@gmail.com >> smtppass = yourPassword >> smtpencryption = tls >> >> $ git format-patch <options> >> # add comments to 00*.patch files. >> $ git send-email 00* >> I've never seen any mangling using send-email, and the gmail SMTP >> server. I've never actually tried using imap-send. Not quite the >> answer to your question, but hopefully, it's another option. >> > > [sendmail] > smtpserver = smtp.gmail.com > smtpserverport = 587 > smtpuser = xenoterracide@gmail.com > smtppass = YeahITypedThisRight > smtpencryption = tls > > everything look good here? because mail isn't actually reaching it's > destination. I have a feeling that's because the MTA isn't set up. I > /could/ set that up... but I don't think that's something that anyone > should have to do to send email patches. > > also according to someone else the reason git can't handle the > attachments is because they are still base64 encoded. > -- > Caleb Cushing > > http://xenoterracide.blogspot.com >
"git imap-send" doesn't use the [sendmail] section of the .gitconfig. It uses the [imap] section. The [sendmail] configuration is if you're using "git send-email".
If you setup the smtp* options, you don't need a local MTA, since send-email will use the SMTP server you configured.
Are you still getting the corruption if you let format-patch generate the patch on disk (don't use the --stdout option), and give the patch filename(s) as the final arguments to send-email? (Could you show the new sequence of commands you're using, and what the output is?)