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• 21 Jan 10
  

  Rishav Dixit

  git

• 24 Dec 09
  

  elle m

  git tips reference howto versioncontrol scm

• 30 Jul 09
  

  Mehdi Kabab

  git tips wiki scm programming development

• 21 Apr 09
  

  Husein Choroomi

  git tips wiki scm reference tutorial howto

• 11 Feb 09
  

  Renato Albano

  versioncontrol scm git howto tips reference

• 06 Nov 08
  

  alfred westerveld

  git tips

  • Using msmtp to send your patches

     

    NOTE: git send-email supports TLS/SSL now.

    Mailing off a set of patches to a mailing list can be quite neatly done by git-send-email. One of the problems you may encounter there is figuring out which machine is going to send your mail. I tried smtp.gmail.com, but that one requires tls and a password, and git-send-email could not handle that.

    A neat little program, msmtp http://msmtp.sourceforge.net/ can help you there. Install and configure a .msmtprc file in your home directory, the likes of:

    # Example for a user configuration file # Set default values for all following accounts. defaults tls on tls_trust_file /etc/pki/tls/certs/ca-bundle.crt logfile ~/.msmtp.log # My email service account gmail host smtp.gmail.com port 587 from some.user.name@gmail.com auth on user some.user.name@gmail.com password my-secret # Set a default account account default : gmail 

    This takes gmail as an example. The ca-bundle.crt is the file with CA certificates for Fedora Core 6, for other distros you might have to dig it up from somewhere else. On Ubuntu /etc/ssl/certs/ca-certificates.crt should be used, for example. Now, by giving the full path name to the msmtp program as smtp server to git-send-email, you can send the patches through gmail or some other smtp account with TLS and/or user authentication.

    git-send-email --smtp-server /usr/local/bin/msmtp <file|directory> 

    An alternative to setting --smtp-server each time is to set the global sendemail.smtpserver value.

    git-config --global sendemail.smtpserver /usr/local/bin/msmtp 

    Another option is to configure a local smtp server on your machine, using a well-known SMTP server as smarthost. Then, all applications using localhost as a mail server (e.g. /usr/bin/mail) will work.

    On OS X with macports, msmtp can be installed with 'sudo port install msmtp', and '/usr/share/curl/curl-ca-bundle.crt' should work for tls_trust_file.
• 31 Oct 08
  

  Paul Jones

  General tips and tricks for using git, in particular how to push/pull via ssh to host behind gateway

  git reference ssh

• 06 Jun 08
  

  Antti Kaihola

  git tips doc

• 09 May 08
  

  Wen Zhang

  git

• 30 Apr 08
  

  Steve Willer

  some useful little tips for day-to-day use.

  git

• 12 Apr 08
  

  lee doolan

  git

• 09 Apr 08
  

  Dan Smorey Jr.

  git repository

• 12 Sep 07
  

  Hendy Irawan

  Git allows you to easily fix up the most recent commit you've made on a branch with the --amend option:
  
  For example the following command will allow you to alter the commit message at the top of current head:

  tips wiki git

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