Documentation: publicize KMail hints for sending patches inline
These hints are in git's private SubmittingPatches document but a wider audience might be interested. Move them to the "git format-patch" manpage. I'm not sure what gotchas these hints are meant to work around. They might be completely false. Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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@@ -413,8 +413,8 @@ that or Gentoo did it.) So you need to set the
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-Thunderbird
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+Thunderbird, KMail
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See the MUA-SPECIFIC HINTS section of git-format-patch(1).
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@@ -433,24 +433,6 @@ message in raw form before using '|' to run the pipe can work
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this problem around.
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-KMail
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-This should help you to submit patches inline using KMail.
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-1) Prepare the patch as a text file.
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-2) Click on New Mail.
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-3) Go under "Options" in the Composer window and be sure that
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-"Word wrap" is not set.
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-4) Use Message -> Insert file... and insert the patch.
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-5) Back in the compose window: add whatever other text you wish to the
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-message, complete the addressing and subject fields, and press send.
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Gmail
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Documentation/git-format-patch.txt
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you include patches with Thunderbird in an easy way. To use it, do the
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steps above and then use the script as the external editor.
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+KMail
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+~~~~~
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+This should help you to submit patches inline using KMail.
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+1. Prepare the patch as a text file.
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+2. Click on New Mail.
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+3. Go under "Options" in the Composer window and be sure that
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+ "Word wrap" is not set.
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+4. Use Message -> Insert file... and insert the patch.
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+5. Back in the compose window: add whatever other text you wish to the
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+ message, complete the addressing and subject fields, and press send.
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EXAMPLES
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