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Also add a comment that the web interface wraps the lines Signed-off-by: John Tapsell <johnflux@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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GMail does not appear to have any way to turn off line wrapping in the web
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interface, so this will mangle any emails that you send. You can however
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use any IMAP email client to connect to the google imap server, and forward
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the emails through that. Just make sure to disable line wrapping in that
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email client. Alternatively, use "git send-email" instead.
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Submitting properly formatted patches via Gmail is simple now that
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IMAP support is available. First, edit your ~/.gitconfig to specify your
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account settings:
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port = 993
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sslverify = false
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You might need to instead use: folder = "[Google Mail]/Drafts" if you get an error
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that the "Folder doesn't exist".
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Next, ensure that your Gmail settings are correct. In "Settings" the
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"Use Unicode (UTF-8) encoding for outgoing messages" should be checked.
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Go to your Gmail account, open the Drafts folder, find the patch email, fill
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in the To: and CC: fields and send away!
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