What do you use to receive mailed patches? (was: What do you use to send git patches?)
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Marc-André Lureau <marcandre.lureau@gmail.com>
- Date
- Sep 5, 2008, 14:15 UTC
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Hi!
Thanks Jakub for your answer.
On Fri, Sep 5, 2008 at 5:10 PM, Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com> wrote:
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>> If somebody could explain how they handle the git send-mail patches >> they recieve, I would be thankful. How do you create .mbox files? What >> is your workflow when you deal with mails? > > I almost always use git-format-patch to generate patches (some people > use git-show or git-diff for proof-of-concept patches), and either use > git-send-email (I have sendmail configured to send mails via GMail, > but my computer is single-user machine; you can try sendemail.smpt* > options instead, if you have appropriate Perl modules installed), or > use KMail: Message > Insert file, ensuring that in Options I have Word > wrapping turned off. > > In some rare case I used 'stg mail' (also via properly configured > sendmail). >
My question was about handling the patches you receive. Sending configuration is quite easy.
Thanks
-- Marc-André Lureau