Documentation/SubmittingPatches: clarify GMail section and SMTP
We keep getting mangled submissions from GMail's web interface. Try to
be more proactive in SubmittingPatches by
- pointing to MUA specific instructions early on,
- structuring the GMail section more clearly,
- putting send-email/SMTP before imap-send/IMAP.
Signed-off-by: Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
diff --git a/Documentation/SubmittingPatches b/Documentation/SubmittingPatches
index abc65de..22e3808 100644
--- a/Documentation/SubmittingPatches
+++ b/Documentation/SubmittingPatches
@@ -41,6 +41,7 @@
maintainer (gitster@pobox.com) if (and only if) the patch
is ready for inclusion. If you use git-send-email(1),
please test it first by sending email to yourself.
+ - see below for instructions specific to your mailer
Long version:
@@ -519,9 +520,27 @@
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 any IMAP email client to connect to the google imap server, and forward
+use "git send e-mail" 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:
@@ -537,8 +556,7 @@
that the "Folder doesn't exist".
Once your commits are ready to be sent to the mailing list, run the
-following command to send the patch emails to your Gmail Drafts
-folder.
+following commands:
$ git format-patch --cover-letter -M --stdout origin/master | git imap-send
@@ -546,19 +564,3 @@
interface will line wrap no matter what, so you need to use a real
IMAP client).
-Alternatively, you can 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/
- $ git send-email outgoing/*
