On 17 February 2017 at 16:54, Chad Joan <chadj...@gmail.com> wrote: > so if we can test and > approve even /some/ of the more popular mail clients (ex: gmail, > thunderbird, outlook, etc) for use, it would help newbies A LOT.
Pretty sure we've seen mangled emails from all of those. The problem is that most email clients will automatically wrap long lines, which is fine for text but breaks an inline patch. Changing trailing whitespace in patches is also a common issue. The documentation in "git help format-patch" has a section "MUA-SPECIFIC HINTS" which says that gmail's web interface is definitely no good, and Thunderbird defaults to the wrong thing and requires a bunch of config changes which you'd then have to switch back to your preferences for normal mail when you're done sending patches. Outlook is so hopeless for patch mail it isn't even listed :-) The kernel docs have a longer list of mail clients with notes about suitability: https://kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/email-clients.html but the set of "just works" clients is very small. thanks -- PMM
