Subject: Re: [PATCH] Checklist clarifications: added "Commits", "Patch:" headings

From: Jari Aalto <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2007 15:02:50 +0300

Johannes Schindelin <[email-masked]> writes:

> Hi,
>
> On Mon, 30 Apr 2007, Jari Aalto wrote:
>
>> +	- send your patch to <[email-masked]> by using
>> +	  git-format-patch(1) with option "-M". See also
>> +	  git-send-email(1).
>>  	- do not PGP sign your patch
>> -	- use "git format-patch -M" to create the patch
>
> NACK.
>
> I never use send-email myself. There are even technical issues to my 
> excuse: sometimes I cannot send the mails from my machine. So, this should 
> not be a _replacement_ for `git format-patch -M && send mail manually`, 
> but only an _alternative_.
>
> However, my impression was that many people had problems when first 
> sending patches with send-email. There should be _at least_ a word of 
> caution, that you should test the operation on something different than 
> the Git list first.

Is this workding okay?

        - send your patch to <[email-masked]> by using
          git-format-patch(1) with option "-M". If you use  
          git-send-email(1), please test it first by sending 
          email to yourself.

Jari