Scott:
  Thanks for your suggestion. I can select all and copy them, but I still miss 
the mail header. Do you mean to get the mail header from the saved as txt file?

Thanks
Liming
> -----Original Message-----
> From: edk2-devel [mailto:edk2-devel-boun...@lists.01.org] On Behalf Of Scott 
> Duplichan
> Sent: Friday, November 06, 2015 10:38 PM
> To: Gao, Liming; 'Daryl McDaniel'
> Cc: edk2-de...@ml01.01.org
> Subject: Re: [edk2] [Patch 0/4] AppPkg/Python: Port Python 2.7.10 to EDK II
> 
> Hello Liming,
> 
> I see what you mean. With Microsoft Outlook File->Save as->Save as Txt,
> a tab is added after from:, sent:, to:, and subject:. Worse yet, the
> lines are wrapped to 78 or so columns. The only solution I have found
> is to avoid File->SaveAs altogether and instead use:
> 
>     <Ctrl-A> Select All
>     <Ctrl-C> Copy
> 
> ... then paste the patch into a text editor and save it that way.
> It is truly frightening to see how many data corruption methods
> Microsoft has invented.
> 
> Thanks,
> Scott
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Gao, Liming [mailto:liming....@intel.com]
> Sent: Friday, November 06, 2015 01:46 AM
> To: Scott Duplichan <sc...@notabs.org>; 'Daryl McDaniel' 
> <edk2-li...@mc2research.org>
> Cc: edk2-de...@ml01.01.org
> Subject: RE: [edk2] [Patch 0/4] AppPkg/Python: Port Python 2.7.10 to EDK II
> 
> Scott:
>   When I get the mail in outlook, how I save this mail as Git patch?
> 
>   I try saving the mail by File->Save as->Save as Txt. I find the saved txt 
> file includes Tab in header and the wrapped line. It can't be
> applied as the git patch.
> 
> Thanks
> Liming
> -----Original Message-----
> From: edk2-devel [mailto:edk2-devel-boun...@lists.01.org] On Behalf Of Scott 
> Duplichan
> Sent: Friday, November 06, 2015 10:35 AM
> To: 'Daryl McDaniel'
> Cc: edk2-de...@ml01.01.org
> Subject: Re: [edk2] [Patch 0/4] AppPkg/Python: Port Python 2.7.10 to EDK II
> 
> Jordan Justen [mailto:jordan.l.jus...@intel.com] wrote:
> 
> ]Sent: Thursday, November 05, 2015 07:35 PM
> ]To: Daryl McDaniel <edk2-li...@mc2research.org>; edk2-de...@ml01.01.org; 
> Jaben Carsey (Intel) ]<jaben.car...@intel.com>; Erik
> Bjorge (Intel) <erik.c.bjo...@intel.com>
> ]Subject: Re: [edk2] [Patch 0/4] AppPkg/Python: Port Python 2.7.10 to EDK II
> ]
> ]Have you considered using git?
> ]
> ]For one, EDK II is moving to git.
> ]
> ]It would have enabled you to easily generate and send the patch files
> ]for your patch series. (I am guessing you spend considerable time
> ]generating these emails, and yet, I don't think they are usable to
> ]actually apply to a tree.)
> ]
> ]I think Outlook may have munged some of the lines in your file. Some
> ]of the lines seem to have been wrapped.
> 
> Correct. Daryl is using Outlook 2013, same as me. Here is a partial
> solution: In File, Options, Mail, Message Format...
>     Automatically wrap text at character [Set to maximum (132)]
>     Remove extra line breaks in plain text messages [Uncheck]
> Then be sure to select FORMAT TEXT, Plain Text for messages to the
> list. When typing text, put in line breaks manually.
> 
> Amazing Microsoft doesn't allow disabling line wrapping altogether.
> If I remember correctly, Outlook 2007 is better. Next time I rebuild
> my drive, I am switching back to Outlook 2007.
> 
> So anyway, this is not a rock solid solution. But EDK2 code doesn't
> have lines long enough to make the patch fail from wrapping to 132
> columns.
> 
> Here is a test line of length 131:
> 0        0         0         0         0         0         0         0        
>  0         0         1         1         1         1
> 0        1         2         3         4         5         6         7        
>  8         9         0         1         2         3
> 12345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123
> 456789012345678901
> 
> Thanks,
> Scott
> 
> 
> ]You also could easily post a branch of your patches (for example, on
> ]github).
> ]
> ]Also, git send-email nicely uses the In-Reply-To email header to
> ]thread all the patches of your series together.
> ]
> ]-Jordan
> ]
> <...>
> 
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