Re: [PATCH] Documentation/SubmittingPatches: Clarify Gmail section

On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 6:18 AM, Ramkumar Ramachandra [off-list ref] wrote:

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Is the web interface the _only_ way to interact with IMAP drafts on Gmail?
If that is the case, your patch (or Aaron's earlier attempt) to make the
document not to talk about imap-send in the context of Gmail makes sense.

No. An email client can sync with the drafts folder in GMail over
IMAP. However, sending the final email has to be done over SMTP.
The effect of "git imap-send" can be replicated by copy-pasting text
into the email client's compose interface. So, using "git imap-send"
seems like a bit of a roundabout way to me. There are some usecases
though (like queuing up patches as drafts before sending): so I'll add
a paragraph about this in my next revision.

-- Ram
--

git imap-send has far less manual steps than cut and pasting into an
e-mail client, so it is certainly preferable to cut-and-paste which
seems particularly error prone.

Perhaps the words could be changed to something like:

If you do want to use the imap-send option with Gmail you MUST use an
IMAP client that does not line wrap to do any final polishing of the
patch e-mails prior to submitting them to the list. If you use the
gmail web interface to edit the draft  messages in any way, line
wrapping WILL occur.

jon.