nowfound

Life & fun · April 4, 2019

LT

Learn to use email with Git

Learn to use email with Git launched on April 4, 2019 with 170 votes, #131 of 3,128 launches that month and more than 95% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 7 years on.

Visit git-send-email.io ↗Alternativestop 4% of April 2019

In plain words

A guide teaching developers how to use Git's built-in email collaboration tools. It covers configuring email settings and sending patches through email-based workflows, enabling contributions to projects like the Linux kernel and PostgreSQL. The guide walks users through setting up SMTP credentials and email configuration for Git, making it accessible for those new to email-driven development practices.

written from the facts on this page · September 2026

From the sources

Git ships with built-in tools for collaborating over email. With this guide, you'll be contributing to email-driven projects like the Linux kernel, PostgreSQL, or even git itself in no time. You only need to complete this step once for each machine you intend to send emails from. git config --global sendemail.smtpPass 'your password' Next step is to add these details to your global configuration file: [sendemail] smtpserver = smtp.gmail.com smtpuser = [email protected] smtpencryption = ssl smtpserverport = 465 Be sure to fill in your own email address under smtpuser . It is still possible to use git send-email without two-factor authentication and application-specific password, but this…from git-send-email.io

Does a similar job

all alternatives →
  • ugit – Learn Git Internals by Building Git in Python2020 · leshenko.net · ▲309
  • A simple Go web server with logging, tracing, health check2018 · gist.github.com · ▲318

    GitHub Gist: instantly share code, notes, and snippets.

  • Mail2github – commit something to GitHub via email2024 · github.com · ▲20

    Send E-Mail and create files in Github with E-Mail content. Perfect for saving your ChatGPT or other AI results to GitHub - GitHub - ulrischa/mail2github: Send E-Mail and create files in Github with E-Mail content. Perfect for saving your ChatGPT or other AI results to GitHub

  • Gitgpt – Natural Language Git2023 · github.com · ▲108

    Hey folks, Here's a quick and dirty tool to use natural language to get git to do what you want. Example: $gitgpt create a new branch called feature/test add all the files and commit with msg creating feature test then push to origin I haven't put it through the wringer yet, however it's worked well with some pretty straight forward day to day git usage.

  • A chat client built on git2016 · github.com · ▲81

    Contribute to staab/git-chat development by creating an account on GitHub.

  • Switch Git Users CLI2020 · github.com · ▲140

    Switch git user and email with ease. Contribute to geongeorge/Git-User-Switch development by creating an account on GitHub.

More life & fun this month

the category →

Source: Show HN post ↗

Launched alongside, April 2019

the whole month →