From: Matthieu Moy Date: Thu, 27 Nov 2014 18:24:12 GMT Subject: Re: Our cumbersome mailing list workflow Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <54776367.1010104@web.de> Torsten Bögershausen writes: > On 2014-11-25 01.28, Michael Haggerty wrote: > [] >> Let me list the aspects of our mailing list workflow that I find >> cumbersome as a contributor and reviewer: >> >> * Submitting patches to the mailing list is an ordeal of configuring >> format-patch and send-email and getting everything just right, using >> instructions that depend on the local environment. > Typically everything fits into ~/.gitconfig, > which can be carried around on a USB-Stick. I personnally submit all my Git patches from a machine whose /usr/sbin/sendmail knows how to send emails, so for me configuration is super simple. But I can imagine the pain of someone working on various machines with various network configuration and normally using a webmail to send emails. Sharing ~/.gitconfig does not always work because on machine A you only can use one SMTP server, and on machine B only another ... -- Matthieu Moy http://www-verimag.imag.fr/~moy/