Re: Sending patch with Gnus

[Francis Moreau]

Thierry Volpiatto <address@hidden> writes:

> Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> Francis Moreau <address@hidden> writes:
>>
>>> Since Gnus is using Git as SCM, I'm wondering if some of you have a
>>> magical function that can be used to send patch easily.
>>>
>>> For example, git-format-patch(1) generates a patch with all header
>>> fields set up such as "Subject, From..." and I'd like to create a new
>>> mail automatically from the generated patch using the header fields in
>>> the patch.
>>>
>>> Currently I'm starting a new mail and in the message body I'm inserting
>>> the output from git-format-patch(1) and then I do some clean up
>>> _manually_.
>>>
>>> Using git-send-email(1) with its ton of options is too complex for me
>>> when I need to send only 1 patch.
>>
>> This sounds like a good idea, but I think that it might belong more to
>> vc-mode than to Gnus, so I've Cc'd it to emacs-devel.
>>
>> Does the VC system have a general "make-an-email-from-this-patch"
>> mechanism? 
> DVC have this.
> M-x dvc-export-via-mail

Well, I don't use VC (or DVC) mode because I just prefer using the SCM
directly since it allows to do much more things. And IIRC, VC mode do
some automatic things which can slow down a lot emacs when dealing with
large repos.

-- 
Francis