# Sending patches via gmail 4 messages from 2008-04-01 to 2008-04-01. Participants: Jonathan del Strother, David Aguilar, Jeff King. Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/12946 ## Jonathan del Strother, 2008-04-01 09:49 Subject: Sending patches via gmail Message-ID: <57518fd10804010249h4fe43bbfu64cf9576ca2edcf3@mail.gmail.com> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/57518fd10804010249h4fe43bbfu64cf9576ca2edcf3%40mail.gmail.com ``` I can't seem to send patches via gmail without it adding spurious line breaks - eg http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/78407. I thought this was supposed to be possible... All I'm doing is copying the contents of my patch, then in Gmail, clicking Compose Mail, make sure it's in Plain Text rather than Rich Formatting mode, paste my patch, and moving the mail header lines out of the message body. What am I missing? Jonathan del Strother ``` ## David Aguilar, 2008-04-01 10:09 Subject: Re: Sending patches via gmail Message-ID: <402731c90804010309w6a27d2d1t2df25ac41fff96b9@mail.gmail.com> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/402731c90804010309w6a27d2d1t2df25ac41fff96b9%40mail.gmail.com In-Reply-To: <57518fd10804010249h4fe43bbfu64cf9576ca2edcf3@mail.gmail.com> ``` On 4/1/08, Jonathan del Strother wrote: > I can't seem to send patches via gmail without it adding spurious line > breaks - eg http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/78407. > I thought this was supposed to be possible... All I'm doing is > copying the contents of my patch, then in Gmail, clicking Compose > Mail, make sure it's in Plain Text rather than Rich Formatting mode, > paste my patch, and moving the mail header lines out of the message > body. > > What am I missing? > Jonathan del Strother Try git send-email w/ msmtp: http://git.or.cz/gitwiki/GitTips#head-a015948617d9becbdc9836776f96ad244ba87cb8 -- David ``` ## Jonathan del Strother, 2008-04-01 10:51 Subject: Re: Sending patches via gmail Message-ID: <57518fd10804010351x341ba728i69cfcad8f3909d6a@mail.gmail.com> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/57518fd10804010351x341ba728i69cfcad8f3909d6a%40mail.gmail.com In-Reply-To: <402731c90804010309w6a27d2d1t2df25ac41fff96b9@mail.gmail.com> ``` On Tue, Apr 1, 2008 at 11:09 AM, David Aguilar wrote: > On 4/1/08, Jonathan del Strother wrote: > > > > I can't seem to send patches via gmail without it adding spurious line > > breaks - eg http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/78407. > > I thought this was supposed to be possible... All I'm doing is > > copying the contents of my patch, then in Gmail, clicking Compose > > Mail, make sure it's in Plain Text rather than Rich Formatting mode, > > paste my patch, and moving the mail header lines out of the message > > body. > > > > What am I missing? > > Jonathan del Strother > > > > Try git send-email w/ msmtp: > http://git.or.cz/gitwiki/GitTips#head-a015948617d9becbdc9836776f96ad244ba87cb8 > ...which seems to work ok, except for the fact that the From line in my patch (the output of git format-patch) then appears at the top of my message body in the resulting email (from git send-email). Deleting the From line from the patch seems to make everything work as expected. Any ideas what's going on there? ``` ## Jeff King, 2008-04-01 11:03 Subject: Re: Sending patches via gmail Message-ID: <20080401110355.GA3777@coredump.intra.peff.net> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/20080401110355.GA3777%40coredump.intra.peff.net In-Reply-To: <57518fd10804010351x341ba728i69cfcad8f3909d6a@mail.gmail.com> ``` On Tue, Apr 01, 2008 at 11:51:38AM +0100, Jonathan del Strother wrote: > ...which seems to work ok, except for the fact that the From line in > my patch (the output of git format-patch) then appears at the top of > my message body in the resulting email (from git send-email). > Deleting the From line from the patch seems to make everything work as > expected. Any ideas what's going on there? send-email will create a "from" line in the body of the message if the "sender" (using --from, or answering "Who should the emails appear to be from") doesn't match the patch's author (the "From:" line in the generated patch, which comes from the author field of the commit). The line is interpeted by git-am to properly credit the original author. It looks like you are committing as jon.delStrother@bestbefore.tv, but sending the emails as maillist@steelskies.com. -Peff ```