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| author | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2025-09-02 08:21:26 -0700 |
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| committer | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2025-09-02 08:21:26 -0700 |
| commit | 3a7810937524f0ce76efee070f5d53e221718728 (patch) | |
| tree | c2959e40b6f63c901db8f62099e1c2cd0ab1cf8b | |
| parent | Merge branch 'kh/doc-config-typofix' (diff) | |
| parent | doc/format-patch: adjust Thunderbird MUA hint to new add-on (diff) | |
| download | git-3a7810937524f0ce76efee070f5d53e221718728.tar.gz git-3a7810937524f0ce76efee070f5d53e221718728.zip | |
Merge branch 'js/doc-sending-patch-via-thunderbird'
Doc update.
* js/doc-sending-patch-via-thunderbird:
doc/format-patch: adjust Thunderbird MUA hint to new add-on
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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-format-patch.adoc | 12 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/git-format-patch.adoc b/Documentation/git-format-patch.adoc index 048d1b9815..9a7807ca71 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-format-patch.adoc +++ b/Documentation/git-format-patch.adoc @@ -591,13 +591,19 @@ an external editor to keep Thunderbird from mangling the patches. Approach #1 (add-on) ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ -Install the Toggle Word Wrap add-on that is available from -https://addons.mozilla.org/thunderbird/addon/toggle-word-wrap/ -It adds a menu entry "Enable Word Wrap" in the composer's "Options" menu +Install the Toggle Line Wrap add-on that is available from +https://addons.thunderbird.net/thunderbird/addon/toggle-line-wrap +It adds a button "Line Wrap" to the composer's toolbar that you can tick off. Now you can compose the message as you otherwise do (cut + paste, 'git format-patch' | 'git imap-send', etc), but you have to insert line breaks manually in any text that you type. +As a bonus feature, the add-on can detect patch text in the composer +and warns when line wrapping has not yet been turned off. + +The add-on requires a few tweaks of the advanced configuration +(about:config). These are listed on the download page. + Approach #2 (configuration) ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Three steps: |
