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Re: Using thunderbird to post/apply patches?

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Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date
Feb 7, 2008, 23:34 UTC
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Hi,
On Fri, 8 Feb 2008, Martin Langhoff wrote:
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> Is there anyone using thunderbird/mozilla to post patches with 
> additional email commentary like Junio and Linus do? Are there good 
> tricks for this? Or otherwise a similar MUA that does things right?
> 
> The 2 workflows I am after are...
> 
>  - Load up a patch created with git-format-patch into my email editor
> to add some commentary before sending. Should not munge the patch
> itself!

The "Thunderbird" section in Documentation/SubmittingPatches should help here.

>  - Feed an email I am reading to git-apply-mbox so that if it's
> reasonably formatted as a patch it will do the right thing and apply
> it.

Recently, git-am learnt to apply mails in maildir format. Thunderbird uses maildir format internally, if I am not mistaken.

Hth, Dscho

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  1. Martin LanghoffFeb 7, 2008
  2. Johannes SchindelinFeb 7, 2008
  3. Martin LanghoffFeb 7, 2008
  4. Johannes SchindelinFeb 8, 2008
  5. Martin LanghoffFeb 8, 2008
  6. Brandon CaseyFeb 7, 2008
  7. Jay SoffianFeb 8, 2008
  8. Junio C HamanoFeb 8, 2008
  9. Johannes SchindelinFeb 8, 2008

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