git-send-email.io
Learning and science
interactive tutorial
SHOW HN2019
170points
71comments
#240of 2,195 in 2019
Top 11%of 2019 by points
How HN took it
CuriousMostly questions and neutral comments
5 positive, 22 neutral or asking, 3 mixed, 8 critical, out of 38 comments about the project. Thread score -0.11.
Execution: 3 for, 2 againstDesign: 1 for, 3 againstDocs: 1 for, 2 againstIdea: 0 for, 1 against
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What HN said
What people liked
Clear tutorial that makes email patch workflow approachable
From 2 comments
Aha! Makes sense. The docs are usually great for git, but it wasn't clear to me that the args were passed on to git format-patch, where the -v parameter indeed is properly…
kbeckmann on HNOkay, thanks! I am finally getting it.
bo1024 on HN
Nice design and avatar
From 2 comments
I love the little avatar they have for the site. Little touches like thatare really underrated.
knolax on HNCan only speak for myself, but I didn't understand enough context to get much out of the site. I'm used git for small, personal collaborations, so I don't know why it sends email…
bo1024 on HN
Objections
Hard to follow without background on why email is used
From 2 comments
Can only speak for myself, but I didn't understand enough context to get much out of the site. I'm used git for small, personal collaborations, so I don't know why it sends email…
bo1024 on HNThanks for the reply. I'll explain why I'm still confused/unsure what is going on, hope it is useful feedback. My understanding of git is that there is a server, and users…
bo1024 on HN
Accessibility issues with radio button accordion and missing focus styles
From 1 comment
Step one would be improved with a small bit of JavaScript to sniff the platform and expand the most likely section (and ideally even move it to the top). Please don’t be allergic…
chrismorgan on HN
Mobile layout and colour contrast bugs
From 2 comments
The mobile version has some issues https://m.imgur.com/a/YYnHXeM
tambourine_man on HNThe page sets a background color, but not text color. With system theme, I get white text on white background.
rhn_mk1 on HN
Looking up message IDs is tedious
From 1 comment
I wanted so much to like this. The evolution of SirHat (better name :) is entertaining, and never leaving the cmdline would be great! And I was on board until encountering this…
jaytaylor on HN
Requests
Explain what the recipient does with a patch
From 2 comments
Maybe I missed it, but I think it would be great to also explain what happens on the other end of this process. What does someone do when they receive a patch?
johntash on HNIt's a little more involved than that depending on what mail client you use. There is no git-get-email command that would standardize the experience.
u801e on HN
Document git-format-patch and send-email with saved files
From 2 comments
Great tutorial. You may want to add a section about using git-format-patch to allow one to see the emails on disk and using git-send-email with those files. You may also want to…
u801e on HNIn the e-mail reply that you get when following the guide you get something to copy paste that looks like this: ``` git send-email -v2 ... ``` I tried to find documentation…
kbeckmann on HN
Add a JavaScript platform sniff to expand the right OS section
From 1 comment
Step one would be improved with a small bit of JavaScript to sniff the platform and expand the most likely section (and ideally even move it to the top). Please don’t be allergic…
chrismorgan on HN
Questions
Why email is used instead of a hosted platform
From 2 comments
Can only speak for myself, but I didn't understand enough context to get much out of the site. I'm used git for small, personal collaborations, so I don't know why it sends email…
bo1024 on HNThis is great for small one-off projects, but I don't know why anyone would want to promote the usage of mailing lists in general. The industry moved on to more centralized…
chmln on HN
How to link to a specific step
From 2 comments
It seems to have a cost though, how do I link to a specific page? Anti-snark edit: what's the URL to a specific step?
rhn_mk1 on HNWell, it takes some form & css trickery as well. I'd call this more hacky than anything. It doesn't let you link to a specific step. https://git-send-email.io/index.css
darkstar999 on HN
Alternatives named
GitHub, GitLab and similar hosted forges
From 2 comments
This is great for small one-off projects, but I don't know why anyone would want to promote the usage of mailing lists in general. The industry moved on to more centralized…
chmln on HN> My understanding of git is that there is a server, and users push/pull to the server. Git is a distributed VCS and so doesn't need a (centralised) server to share code. Sites…
rgoulter on HN
Gitea or Gogs self-hosted git
From 1 comment
This is great for small one-off projects, but I don't know why anyone would want to promote the usage of mailing lists in general. The industry moved on to more centralized…
chmln on HN
Mutt and Thunderbird as mail clients
From 2 comments
One thing a lot of email providers (at least gmail and fastmail) do is let you create application passwords that you can use for specific purposes. So if you're at all queasy…
sevensor on HNI've configured my email client (Thunderbird) to display it when viewing an email. I can simply right-click on the message-id value and get a context-menu with a "copy…
u801e on HN