"Phil Holmes" <[email protected]> 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 _______________________________________________ lilypond-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel
