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diff --git a/Documentation/SubmittingPatches b/Documentation/SubmittingPatches index e9d8c3f6c1..938eccf2a5 100644 --- a/Documentation/SubmittingPatches +++ b/Documentation/SubmittingPatches @@ -413,8 +413,8 @@ that or Gentoo did it.) So you need to set the it. -Thunderbird, KMail ------------------- +Thunderbird, KMail, GMail +------------------------- See the MUA-SPECIFIC HINTS section of git-format-patch(1). @@ -431,53 +431,3 @@ characters (most notably in people's names), and also whitespaces (fatal in patches). Running 'C-u g' to display the message in raw form before using '|' to run the pipe can work this problem around. - - -Gmail ------ - -GMail does not appear to have any way to turn off line wrapping in the web -interface, so this 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. - -To use "git send-email" and send your patches through the GMail SMTP server, -edit ~/.gitconfig to specify your account settings: - -[sendemail] - smtpencryption = tls - smtpserver = smtp.gmail.com - smtpuser = user@gmail.com - smtppass = p4ssw0rd - smtpserverport = 587 - -Once your commits are ready to be sent to the mailing list, run the -following commands: - - $ git format-patch --cover-letter -M origin/master -o outgoing/ - $ edit outgoing/0000-* - $ git send-email outgoing/* - -To submit using the IMAP interface, first, edit your ~/.gitconfig to specify your -account settings: - -[imap] - folder = "[Gmail]/Drafts" - host = imaps://imap.gmail.com - user = user@gmail.com - pass = p4ssw0rd - port = 993 - sslverify = false - -You might need to instead use: folder = "[Google Mail]/Drafts" if you get an error -that the "Folder doesn't exist". - -Once your commits are ready to be sent to the mailing list, run the -following commands: - - $ git format-patch --cover-letter -M --stdout origin/master | git imap-send - -Just make sure to disable line wrapping in the email client (GMail web -interface will line wrap no matter what, so you need to use a real -IMAP client). |