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Re: [Q] submitting patches from gmail

From
LRLeo Razoumov <slonik.az@gmail.com>
Date
Oct 18, 2008, 14:12 UTC
Message-ID
<ee2a733e0810180712k42a4dbb6m3d4e9de717a79b53@mail.gmail.com>
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<gdcm3d$f3k$1@ger.gmane.org>

Giuseppe, Thanks for the help!

BTW, what is  /etc/ssl/certs/ca-certificates.crt and how to generate it?
--Leo--
On 10/18/08, Giuseppe Bilotta <giuseppe.bilotta@gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Saturday 18 October 2008 14:08, Leo Razoumov wrote:
>
>  > Hi Everyone,
>  > I wonder what is the preferred way to submit patches from a gmail account.
>  > Google mail auto wraps long lines and there is no way to change this setting.
>  > Safe way would be to use attachments. Are they allowed on git mailing list?
>
>
> I've been sending patches from gmail for a while without problems. It took me
>  a while to find a working configruation, but I finally managed to do it using
>  msmtp. I have
>
>  [sendemail]
>         smtpserver = /usr/bin/msmtp
>
>  in my ~/.gitconfig
>
>  and the following ~/.msmtprc
>
>  ======
>  # Example for a user configuration file
>
>  # Set default values for all following accounts.
>  defaults
>  tls on
>  tls_trust_file /etc/ssl/certs/ca-certificates.crt
>  logfile ~/.msmtp.log
>
>  # My email service
>  account gmail
>  host smtp.gmail.com
>  from yourgmailusername@gmail.com
>  auth on
>  user yourgmailusername
>  password yourgmailpassword
>
>  # Set a default account
>  account default : gmail
>  =========
>
>  And to send patches I just use something like
>
>  git send-email --to "git@vger.kernel.org" --cc "whoever" 00*
>
>  --
>  Giuseppe "Oblomov" Bilotta
>
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  1. Leo RazoumovOct 18, 2008
  2. Tuncer AyazOct 18, 2008
  3. Giuseppe BilottaOct 18, 2008
  4. Tuncer AyazOct 18, 2008
  5. Leo RazoumovOct 18, 2008
  6. Felipe ContrerasOct 18, 2008

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