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diff --git a/Documentation/email-clients.txt b/Documentation/email-clients.txt index e9f5daccbd02..9af538be3751 100644 --- a/Documentation/email-clients.txt +++ b/Documentation/email-clients.txt @@ -1,6 +1,17 @@ Email clients info for Linux ====================================================================== +Git +---------------------------------------------------------------------- +These days most developers use `git send-email` instead of regular +email clients. The man page for this is quite good. On the receiving +end, maintainers use `git am` to apply the patches. + +If you are new to git then send your first patch to yourself. Save it +as raw text including all the headers. Run `git am raw_email.txt` and +then review the changelog with `git log`. When that works then send +the patch to the appropriate mailing list(s). + General Preferences ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Patches for the Linux kernel are submitted via email, preferably as @@ -201,20 +212,15 @@ To beat some sense out of the internal editor, do this: - Edit your Thunderbird config settings so that it won't use format=flowed. Go to "edit->preferences->advanced->config editor" to bring up the - thunderbird's registry editor, and set "mailnews.send_plaintext_flowed" to - "false". + thunderbird's registry editor. -- Disable HTML Format: Set "mail.identity.id1.compose_html" to "false". +- Set "mailnews.send_plaintext_flowed" to "false" -- Enable "preformat" mode: Set "editor.quotesPreformatted" to "true". +- Set "mailnews.wraplength" from "72" to "0" -- Enable UTF8: Set "prefs.converted-to-utf8" to "true". +- "View" > "Message Body As" > "Plain Text" -- Install the "toggle wordwrap" extension. Download the file from: - https://addons.mozilla.org/thunderbird/addon/2351/ - Then go to "tools->add ons", select "install" at the bottom of the screen, - and browse to where you saved the .xul file. This adds an "Enable - Wordwrap" entry under the Options menu of the message composer. +- "View" > "Character Encoding" > "Unicode (UTF-8)" ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ TkRat (GUI) |