On Tue, Nov 08, 2011 at 08:02:35AM -0800, Mike Melanson wrote: > > On Mon, 07 Nov 2011 23:09:47 -0800 > > Mike Melanson <[email protected]> wrote: > > > >> Yeah, 'git show' does work. Now to see what 'git send-email' does with > >> that patch. How does a command line tool interact with SMTP anyway? > > > > As they have been always doing: assuming that a unix host is > > running a correctly configured smtp server that knows how to > > send mails out into the big bad internet. > > > > In detail: there is a /usr/bin/sendmail (yes, it comes from sendmail, > > but all(?) MTAs provide such a binary), which acts as a command line > > interface to add mails to the MTA queue. > > I had to go the external server route. That meant specifying > --smtp-encryption, --smtp-server, --smtp-server-port, --smtp-user, and > also --smtp-debug when I couldn't get those other options just right. :-)
Notice that all of these can go in your config file(s), you don't have to specify them all the time. See ~/.gitconfig and .git/config in the libav sources itself. Diego _______________________________________________ libav-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.libav.org/mailman/listinfo/libav-devel
