From 36c10e6d7543f9f35295df0113b0c250ad421eb4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jonathan Nieder Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2011 21:33:57 -0500 Subject: 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 Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano --- Documentation/git-format-patch.txt | 14 ++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+) (limited to 'Documentation/git-format-patch.txt') 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 -- cgit v1.2.1