Re: [REQ/DISCUSSION] patch managing system

[Ludovic Courtès]

Alex Kost <address@hidden> skribis:

> Ricardo Wurmus (2016-03-23 10:41 +0300) wrote:
>
>> Chris Marusich <address@hidden> writes:
>>
>>> While we're talking about patches, I'm curious: how are other people
>>> managing the patches?  In particular, what does the workflow look like
>>> for people who are committing?  Do you manually download the patch (or
>>> patches) to a temporary folder, view it/them, and if you like what you
>>> see, commit it with "git am" to a local repo, then push to origin?
>>
>> I’m using an email client in Emacs, so the email as well as the attached
>> patch is shown in a regular text buffer.  When I see the patch I can
>> directly apply it by running “git am” on the buffer contents, or by
>> opening a shell and running “git am” on the file associated with the
>> buffer.
>
> In Magit, one can use "w w" to apply patches, and "w m" if they
> are saved in a "maildir" file, as can be done in Gnus by selecting
> several articles (in Summary buffer) and pressing "o".
>
> See (info "(magit) Applying patches") and (info "(gnus) Saving Articles")

That seems less efficient than what Andy suggests (which is what I do as
well), no?

Ludo’.