From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jon Seymour Subject: Re: [PATCH] Documentation/SubmittingPatches: Clarify Gmail section Date: Thu, 8 Apr 2010 08:23:22 +1000 Message-ID: References: <1270668793-2187-1-git-send-email-artagnon@gmail.com> <1270668793-2187-2-git-send-email-artagnon@gmail.com> <7vwrwjav4h.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Cc: Junio C Hamano , Git Mailing List , John Tapsell , Aaron Crane , A Large Angry SCM , Johannes Schindelin , Jacob Helwig To: Ramkumar Ramachandra X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Thu Apr 08 00:23:31 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Nzdej-0002DX-24 for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Thu, 08 Apr 2010 00:23:29 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753669Ab0DGWXY (ORCPT ); Wed, 7 Apr 2010 18:23:24 -0400 Received: from mail-pw0-f46.google.com ([209.85.160.46]:33809 "EHLO mail-pw0-f46.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752271Ab0DGWXX (ORCPT ); Wed, 7 Apr 2010 18:23:23 -0400 Received: by pwj9 with SMTP id 9so1462081pwj.19 for ; Wed, 07 Apr 2010 15:23:23 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :date:received:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type; bh=uLQuMFi9k3okja8PAVzzWGFpTH5d1wTIBzm6B+cdO1c=; b=PckR6k0UA8KUlv6FPBnTww0taw8yEywu7GlCZv46JDhTiu/Fqcc5qLtV8qAxnbFJvL gjQx2O5tVnAOFMyg38I+D5o1YYBMRQqbwO8VZUT7FJXm4tUVJDEtbDWGFiG7N/x2qTQW sJ1h39FL+nEXHe1oBoNFGLsC5B7HXGMTwk+ck= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; b=p/uneOYb/WHP14JG+0dLdmNweTFHWx3L9Rs8fNl+vG4b5cv+Ekrbp2b6nWiycyRDK4 FVDIdu3w3V2/bgteb5JewT0bh4GeedfSwdKFr91YuXjhSXFT5HbPBn6+tb0Ib22uGIod /k2B8Yuf93/Cd17x7IrVFgD26EuCxYGhKbvSI= Received: by 10.114.112.15 with HTTP; Wed, 7 Apr 2010 15:23:22 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: Received: by 10.114.188.31 with SMTP id l31mr1784532waf.32.1270679003010; Wed, 07 Apr 2010 15:23:23 -0700 (PDT) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 6:18 AM, Ramkumar Ramachandra wrote: >> Is the web interface the _only_ way to interact with IMAP drafts on Gmail? >> If that is the case, your patch (or Aaron's earlier attempt) to make the >> document not to talk about imap-send in the context of Gmail makes sense. > > No. An email client can sync with the drafts folder in GMail over > IMAP. However, sending the final email has to be done over SMTP. > The effect of "git imap-send" can be replicated by copy-pasting text > into the email client's compose interface. So, using "git imap-send" > seems like a bit of a roundabout way to me. There are some usecases > though (like queuing up patches as drafts before sending): so I'll add > a paragraph about this in my next revision. > > -- Ram > -- git imap-send has far less manual steps than cut and pasting into an e-mail client, so it is certainly preferable to cut-and-paste which seems particularly error prone. Perhaps the words could be changed to something like: If you do want to use the imap-send option with Gmail you MUST use an IMAP client that does not line wrap to do any final polishing of the patch e-mails prior to submitting them to the list. If you use the gmail web interface to edit the draft messages in any way, line wrapping WILL occur. jon.