From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.ciao.gmane.io!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: git-send-email Date: Mon, 15 Jun 2020 21:59:26 +0300 Message-ID: <83sgew17g1.fsf@gnu.org> References: <875zdteybt.fsf@runbox.com> <87368wrvf5.fsf@yahoo.com> <86k126d83n.wl-me@enzu.ru> <83pnbyckvv.fsf@gnu.org> <4923d7e98f5ed816a7569093dbc673153adcea88.camel@yandex.ru> <837dwb3zb6.fsf@gnu.org> <20200613141653.GA55972@breton.holly.idiocy.org> <835zbv3v6q.fsf@gnu.org> <20200613142329.GA56313@breton.holly.idiocy.org> <834krf3uij.fsf@gnu.org> <87r1ujatv4.fsf@igel.home> <831rmj3stn.fsf@gnu.org> <87mu57atav.fsf@igel.home> <87lfkpcn6t.fsf_-_@gmail.com> <83d0612gx3.fsf@gnu.org> <878sgobuvf.fsf@gmail.com> <837dw82xwd.fsf@gnu.org> <87pna05ogg.fsf@gmail.com> <83zh941cem.fsf@gnu.org> <87r1ugb46u.fsf@gmail.com> <83wo4819sl.fsf@gnu.org> Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="ciao.gmane.io:159.69.161.202"; logging-data="4689"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: alan@idiocy.org, kevin.legouguec@gmail.com, stefan@marxist.se, emacs-devel@gnu.org, schwab@linux-m68k.org, hi-angel@yandex.ru To: Paul Eggert Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Mon Jun 15 21:00:29 2020 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1jkuLN-00012D-1E for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 15 Jun 2020 21:00:29 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:60252 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jkuLL-0004hi-3F for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 15 Jun 2020 15:00:27 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:39760) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jkuKl-0004Cs-AR for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 15 Jun 2020 14:59:51 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:41981) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jkuKj-0008Nm-GH; Mon, 15 Jun 2020 14:59:49 -0400 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=4370 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1jkuKT-0002dc-AN; Mon, 15 Jun 2020 14:59:44 -0400 In-Reply-To: (message from Paul Eggert on Mon, 15 Jun 2020 11:51:33 -0700) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 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-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:252278 Archived-At: > Cc: stefan@marxist.se, alan@idiocy.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org, > schwab@linux-m68k.org, hi-angel@yandex.ru > From: Paul Eggert > Date: Mon, 15 Jun 2020 11:51:33 -0700 > > I mildly prefer patches sent via 'git send-email' to those sent via attachments, > as I can review the patch directly without having to do any extra manipulation > to see it. With Emacs MUAs I'm familiar with, looking at an attachment is very easy, almost like looking at the body. I don't have any problems with that. > > how do I know it's in a proper format to be > > processed correctly by Git? > > That problem exists independently of whether the message is sent as-is, or is > put into an attachment. Not if the body/attachment was formatted by "git format-patch". Then the patches have a telltale format and signature that identify the format unequivocally. > Are you using Gnus to process these messages? No.