From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Git and submitting patches to fix bugs Date: Fri, 13 Nov 2015 10:12:27 +0200 Message-ID: <83k2pmgvx0.fsf@gnu.org> References: Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1447402380 28394 80.91.229.3 (13 Nov 2015 08:13:00 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 13 Nov 2015 08:13:00 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: John Wiegley Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Nov 13 09:12:51 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Zx9TW-0000jD-Eb for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 13 Nov 2015 09:12:50 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:51568 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Zx9TW-0005RQ-3Q for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 13 Nov 2015 03:12:50 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:60191) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Zx9TS-0005RK-Md for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 13 Nov 2015 03:12:47 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Zx9TN-0003O7-KO for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 13 Nov 2015 03:12:46 -0500 Original-Received: from mtaout22.012.net.il ([80.179.55.172]:62858) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Zx9TN-0003O0-Cn for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 13 Nov 2015 03:12:41 -0500 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout22.012.net.il by a-mtaout22.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0NXQ00300UJB1000@a-mtaout22.012.net.il> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 13 Nov 2015 10:12:39 +0200 (IST) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([84.94.185.246]) by a-mtaout22.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0NXQ002UWUT3OE90@a-mtaout22.012.net.il>; Fri, 13 Nov 2015 10:12:39 +0200 (IST) In-reply-to: X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 X-Received-From: 80.179.55.172 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:194329 Archived-At: > From: John Wiegley > Date: Thu, 12 Nov 2015 16:38:31 -0800 > > git commit -a -m "Your description of the fix" > git format-patch --to 21895@debbugs.gnu.org HEAD^.. > git send-email --smtp-server=$SMTP *.patch The last command is unlikely to work with any no-trivial email setup (e.g., if some authentication is needed) without some preliminary configuration. So perhaps using --compose is a better recommendation, assuming the people here already have some email setup for Emacs. Ideally, VC should have support for this, of course, in which case the Emacs email setup will be used automatically.