Antoine Kalmbach writes: > Would it make sense for Emacs' VC to support emailing patches from > within Emacs? It kind of doesn't make sense that I can do mostly > everything in VC... but I have to jump to the command line (shell) to > use git-send-email. > > I was thinking there could be a command called 'vc-mail-commit' which > would in vc-dir-mode or vc-log-mode do the right thing and call git > format-patch and then compose a mail with the contents of the patch (or > the patch attached, depending on customization). > > The right thing would be in vc-dir-mode to prompt for a ref (branch, -1, > HEAD^, etc), in vc-log-mode it would be to compose a set of patches from > the marked commit(s), or prompt like in vc-dir-mode for a ref to send a > patch from a user-specified ref. > > Does such a feature make sense? I know sites like git-send-email.io[1] > say things like: > >> Warning! Some people think that they can get away with sending patches >> through some means other than git send-email, but you can't. Your >> patches will be broken and a nuisance to the maintainers whose inbox >> they land in. Follow the golden rule: just use git send-email. > > But I find that if and only if you use git-format-patch, the end result > is pretty much the same. To that end, I think if Emacs managed to > integrate with the different DVCS' email-based workflows, it would be > a great usability improvement. > > If people think this would be a useful feature, I can open a bug report > to track this and start working on it. The proposed reference > implementation for Git would be to (1) ask the user for a ref (2) call > git format-patch with that (3) compose a new message in Emacs, and set > the body of the message to be the output of git-format-patch (OR attach > the file) and (4) let the MUA take it from there. > > Alternatively, it would be possible to use a combination of with-editor > + git-send-email, but only if we should need ot abide by the "rule", > because to me there aren't many nuances beyond using the format > specified by git-format-patch with your own MUA vs. using > git-send-email. Or do I not know enough about the latter to not see the > missing pieces? > > [1] https://git-send-email.io/#step-3 I want this feature. Even better if I can integrate this with Gnus. -- Akib Azmain Turja Find me on Mastodon at @akib@hostux.social. This message is signed by me with my GnuPG key. Its fingerprint is: 7001 8CE5 819F 17A3 BBA6 66AF E74F 0EFA 922A E7F5