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| author | Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> | 2011-04-14 21:33:57 -0500 |
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| committer | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2011-04-15 13:28:03 -0700 |
| commit | 36c10e6d7543f9f35295df0113b0c250ad421eb4 (patch) | |
| tree | e9c98f63392bfc550c520c905120a8d2d844d657 /Documentation/git-format-patch.txt | |
| parent | 967ab8efd7f294c05b57db600c4e548d7c4f8b2f (diff) | |
| download | git-36c10e6d7543f9f35295df0113b0c250ad421eb4.tar.gz | |
Documentation: publicize hints for sending patches with GMail
The hints in SubmittingPatches about stopping GMail from clobbering
patches are widely useful both as examples of "git send-email" and
"git imap-send" usage.
Move the documentation to the appropriate places.
While at it, don't encourage storing passwords in config files.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/git-format-patch.txt')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-format-patch.txt | 14 |
1 files changed, 14 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/git-format-patch.txt b/Documentation/git-format-patch.txt index 04e0f02d8e..81b442eb28 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-format-patch.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-format-patch.txt @@ -337,6 +337,20 @@ MUA-SPECIFIC HINTS Here are some hints on how to successfully submit patches inline using various mailers. +GMail +~~~~~ +GMail does not have any way to turn off line wrapping in the web +interface, so it will mangle any emails that you send. You can however +use "git send-email" and send your patches through the GMail SMTP server, or +use any IMAP email client to connect to the google IMAP server and forward +the emails through that. + +For hints on using 'git send-email' to send your patches through the +GMail SMTP server, see the EXAMPLE section of linkgit:git-send-email[1]. + +For hints on submission using the IMAP interface, see the EXAMPLE +section of linkgit:git-imap-send[1]. + Thunderbird ~~~~~~~~~~~ By default, Thunderbird will both wrap emails as well as flag |