From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Tassilo Horn Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general,gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Sending patch with Gnus Date: Wed, 15 Dec 2010 22:27:35 +0100 Message-ID: <201012152227.35781.tassilo@member.fsf.org> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1292448492 26533 80.91.229.12 (15 Dec 2010 21:28:12 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 15 Dec 2010 21:28:12 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M23423@lists.math.uh.edu Wed Dec 15 22:28:04 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: ding-account@gmane.org Original-Received: from util0.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.18]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PSytH-0006XA-89 for ding-account@gmane.org; Wed, 15 Dec 2010 22:28:03 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by util0.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1PSysu-0005EI-HF; Wed, 15 Dec 2010 15:27:40 -0600 Original-Received: from mx2.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.33]) by util0.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1PSyst-0005E7-B3 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Wed, 15 Dec 2010 15:27:39 -0600 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx2.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1PSyss-0000wX-D3 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Wed, 15 Dec 2010 15:27:39 -0600 Original-Received: from deliver.uni-koblenz.de ([141.26.64.15]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1PSysr-0000KG-Iq; Wed, 15 Dec 2010 22:27:37 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by deliver.uni-koblenz.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 37EE9780164D; Wed, 15 Dec 2010 22:27:37 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from deliver.uni-koblenz.de ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (deliver.uni-koblenz.de [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 07317-05; Wed, 15 Dec 2010 22:27:36 +0100 (CET) X-CHKRCPT: Envelopesender noch tassilo@member.fsf.org Original-Received: from thinkpad.localnet (95-88-32-105-dynip.superkabel.de [95.88.32.105]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by deliver.uni-koblenz.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id B6B587801643; Wed, 15 Dec 2010 22:27:36 +0100 (CET) User-Agent: KMail/1.13.5 (Linux/2.6.37-rc5+; KDE/4.5.4; x86_64; ; ) In-Reply-To: X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at uni-koblenz.de X-Spam-Score: -4.9 (----) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:75069 gmane.emacs.devel:133725 Archived-At: On Wednesday 15 December 2010 20:21:31 Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen wrote: > > 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. I do the same as Francis, e.g., insert and edit. And at least with git, you should write your accompanying prose text below the signature. That's a bit awkward, but it allows to pipe the complete email to "git am" (is it am?) without having to extract the patch manually first. Bye, Tassilo