Re: [PATCH] Documemtation: fix email-clients for gmail

[Randy Dunlap]

On Sun, 19 Sep 2010 21:21:56 +0800 Hillf Danton wrote:

> If this patch is not unapplyable, then gmail seems not bad for
> delivering patch to vger.kernel.org.

It is unapplyable as is (as received).

> Signed-off-by: Hillf Danton <dhillf@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> 
> --- o/linux-2.6.36-rc4/Documentation/email-clients.txt	2010-09-13
> 07:07:38.000000000 +0800
> +++ m/linux-2.6.36-rc4/Documentation/email-clients.txt	2010-09-19
> 21:14:16.000000000 +0800
> @@ -216,14 +216,6 @@ Works.  Use "Insert file..." or external
>  ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>  Gmail (Web GUI)
> 
> -Does not work for sending patches.
> -
> -Gmail web client converts tabs to spaces automatically.
> -
> -At the same time it wraps lines every 78 chars with CRLF style line breaks
> -although tab2space problem can be solved with external editor.
> -
> -Another problem is that Gmail will base64-encode any message that has a
> -non-ASCII character. That includes things like European names.
> +Works.  Instead of Rich formatting, select Plain Text when preparing patch.

Did not work.
Please see http://lkml.org/lkml/2010/9/19/85.

You can see that something did indeed break the long --- & +++
lines into 2 lines each.

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~Randy
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