On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 12:54 PM, Mauro Carvalho Chehab
<[email protected]> wrote:
>
> On Thu, 26 Mar 2009 11:22:26 +0200
> [email protected] wrote:
>
> > On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 10:34 AM, Mauro Carvalho Chehab
> > <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > On Thu, 26 Mar 2009 01:19:08 +0200
> > > [email protected] wrote:
> > >
> > >> Hello,
> > >>
> > >> how should I format my post in order to patchwork tool understand
> > >> included patch correctly,
> > >
> > > If patchwork is not adding your patches there, then it means that the 
> > > patches
> > > are broken (for example, line-wrapped), or that you're attaching it, and 
> > > your
> > > emailer are using the wrong mime encoding type for diffs.
> > >
> > >> should I just format it like in v4l-dvb/README.patches described?
> > >> then how should I add additional comments to the mail which I do not
> > >> want to be in the patch log?
> > >
> > > All comments you add on your patch will be part of the commit message 
> > > (except
> > > for the meta-tags, like from:).
> > >
> > >> It seems it is possible without special comment symbols.
> > >
> > >
> > > Cheers,
> > > Mauro
> > >
> >
> > can it be that patch made by
> > $diff -uprN v4l-dvb.orig v4l-dvb.my > patch.patch
> > and make commit in .my tree did not complain still broken?
> >
> > does gmail's web interface plain text mail composer has known issues,
> > which can interfere with sending patches?
>
> I never used a web interface to send patches. Since patches should be sent
> inline, and such interfaces do line wrapping, they aren't good for patch
> submission.

Well, i have never heard of such interface in gmail. If someone knows
about it please let me know.

> Also, probably, they'll encode the attachments with text/plain or
> application/octet-stream, instead of the proper text/x-patch mime type.

Vasily, may be this file can help you with mail clients
linux/Documentation/email-clients.txt and instructions how to send
patch correctly.
For example, mutt and evolution works fine with gmail.

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Best regards, Klimov Alexey
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