Re: [PATCH] Issue 2995: git-cly: Update to latest upload.py fromgoogle

[David Kastrup]

"Phil Holmes" <address@hidden> writes:

> ----- Original Message ----- 
>>>
>>> The mail message would not apply - possibly because I had to go
>>> Windows text->unicode->Ubuntu box.
>>
>> No.  You should _not_ go "through" anything.  You should just save the
>> whole message as a file (using Ctrl-S or whatever is used for that, or
>> using some "save to mailbox file" or whatever else is available)
>> unchanged including all headers, and run git am on this file without any
>> conversion.  It will pick up everything it needs.
>
>
> I read and write mail on a Windows box.

Yes, I understood that.

> I run git-cl on an Ubuntu box.  I therefore have to take the mail
> message in Windows and save it to a text file.

To a file.

> The default text file format used by my mail client

The mail client should _not_ convert to anything.  What is needed here
is the naked unchanged message in the form it got it from the server.

> is not recognised ob my Ubuntu box as text, so I have to convert it.
> I then need to copy it over to my Ubuntu box, at which time it would
> not apply.
>
> Also note that the client saves only the text in the message, not
> headers

I should be quite surprised if the mail client has not an option to save
to a mailbox or archive file, the whole unchanged message including
headers.  Maybe it has been made unobvious, but it would be a rather
appalling mail client that can only read a mail file without being able
to write it again.

> - so copying and pasting and saving as are identical on my machine.

Then there should be some other "save"-like operation available.  What
mail client do you use?

> So I grabbed it from Rietveld and it applied.

Sure, that would work as well (modulo having to write your own commit
message).  I doubt that this will be the last time we will have a
problem like that, so I'd be interested in getting to the bottom of it.

-- 
David Kastrup