Re: [patch v2] Documentation/email-clients.txt: add a section about git

[Hillf Danton]

On Thu, May 8, 2014 at 5:05 PM, Julian Andres Klode <jak@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Thu, May 08, 2014 at 11:44:12AM +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote:
>> +as raw text including all the headers.  Run `cat raw_email.txt | git am`
>
> `cat raw_email.txt | git am` seems a bit pointless. Why not simply
> `git am raw_email.txt`? `git am < raw_email.txt` does the same too
> and avoids the useless cat as well.
>
> No point in running two processes when the same can be done in a
> simpler way in one process, IMO.
>
And this helps most developers little, but is more valuable for those who
dont use 'git send-mail' everyday if the detail of cmdline is provided, say
send a patch file with 'git send-mail' through gmail.

We will say double thanks to you, Dan, if you really help us tame gmail.

And a howto to tame gmail is doule apprecaited.

thanks
Hillf
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