From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Thu, 07 Feb 2008 23:34:06 GMT
Subject: Re: Using thunderbird to post/apply patches?
Message-ID: <alpine.LSU.1.00.0802072333120.11591@racer.site>
In-Reply-To: <46a038f90802071521n674b61c2t5e4d4c740375b951@mail.gmail.com>

Hi,

On Fri, 8 Feb 2008, Martin Langhoff wrote:

> 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