[perl #91810] [PATCH 3/7] perlhack.pod: add git send-email item

On Sat May 28 18:40:03 2011, yoduh wrote:
> New item shows git-send-email configuration setup, with example
> showing port, etc for use with a gmail account.
> ---
>  pod/perlhack.pod |   16 ++++++++++++++++
>  1 files changed, 16 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/pod/perlhack.pod b/pod/perlhack.pod
> index f8f8bdd..2173e5d 100644
> --- a/pod/perlhack.pod
> +++ b/pod/perlhack.pod
> @@ -66,6 +66,22 @@ The perlbug program will ask you a few questions
> about your email
>  address and the patch you're submitting. Once you've answered them
> you
>  can submit your patch.
> 
> +=item * Sending patches with git-send-email
> +
> +Adding the following stanza to your .git/config will tell
> +git-send-email where to send and how.  For Gmail users, this is very
> +nice, as the patches are inlined for easy review, but avoid
> whitespace
> +mangling thats mostly unavoidable with the web-interface.
> +See git help send-email for more.
> +
> +    [sendemail]
> +	to = perlbug@perl.org
> +	smtpencryption = tls
> +	smtpserver = smtp.gmail.com
> +	smtpuser = <your-gmail-acct>
> +	smtpserverport = 587
> +	# smtppass = <secret>
> +

Do we really want to promote git-send-email? Whenever anyone uses it, I
have to copy and paste things together to recreate something that git-am
can understand.

If the entire output from git-format-patch is sent as an attachment,
only then is it really easy to apply patches.

• Re: [perl #91810] [PATCH 3/7] perlhack.pod: add git send-email item by Jim Cromie
• [perl #91810] [PATCH 3/7] perlhack.pod: add git send-email item by Father Chrysostomos via RT