From: Philip Kaludercic <philipk@posteo.net>
To: Robert Pluim <rpluim@gmail.com>
Cc: 57400@debbugs.gnu.org, Antoine Kalmbach <ane@iki.fi>
Subject: bug#57400: 29.0.50; Support sending patches from VC directly
Date: Thu, 06 Oct 2022 14:37:59 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87sfk1m308.fsf@posteo.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <877d1d6rcy.fsf@gmail.com> (Robert Pluim's message of "Thu, 06 Oct 2022 14:58:37 +0200")
Robert Pluim <rpluim@gmail.com> writes:
>>>>>> On Thu, 06 Oct 2022 12:38:25 +0000, Philip Kaludercic
> <philipk@posteo.net> said:
> Philip> +(defcustom vc-prepare-patches-inline nil
> Philip> + "Non-nil means that `vc-prepare-patch' creates a single
> Philip> message.
> >>
> >> "Whether `vc-prepare-patch' attaches all revision in a single message."
> >>
> >> Iʼm not sure this should have the suffix '-inline', because you can
> >> have inline attachments and attached attachments, but itʼs not a big
> >> deal.
>
> Philip> If you have a better name, there is no better time to
> Philip> change it than now.
>
> `vc-prepare-patch-attach'? `vc-prepare-patch-attach-patches'? Itʼs all
> a bit of a mouthful to type, and it doesnʼt feel like much of an
> improvement over what you have.
Maybe `vc-prepare-patches-separately' and set the value to t by defaut?
> >> I also wonder about the default. Creating 100 mail buffers by accident
> >> is harder to recover from than a single one with 100 attachments, but
> >> I guess experience will inform us.
>
> Philip> The only case where this might happen by accident is when someone
> Philip> invokes `vc-prepare-patch' in a log-edit buffer where all
> Philip> (or at least a
> Philip> lot) of revisions have been marked. In that case, one could add a
> Philip> "safely check" and make sure that the user actually wants to proceed.
>
> That sounds sufficiently hard to achieve by accident that we
> should leave it alone for now.
Ok.
> Philip> +A single message is created by attaching all patches to the body
> Philip> +of a single message. If nil, each patch will be sent out in a
> Philip> +separate message, which will be prepared sequentially."
> Philip> + :type 'boolean
> Philip> + :safe #'booleanp
> Philip> + :version "29.1")
> Philip> +
> >>
> >> (I didnʼt check, can this do the [PATCH n/m] stuff with the
> >> subject that 'git format-patch' can do?)
>
> Philip> Yes, as the Git backend just copies the subject name that
> Philip> git-format-patch generates.
>
> Perfect
>
> Philip> As this is just the default value for
> Philip> `read-multiple-choice' a list with
> Philip> commae should do. That being said, how common is it to have multiple
> Philip> people you consistently want to send a patch to? Usually
> Philip> you'd have a
> Philip> central mailing list or something like that, I'd assume.
>
> Right, and itʼs a string, so it caters for multiple addresses.
I am confused, so everything in fine?
> >> ? What does `vc-prepare-patches-inline' have to do with the SUBJECT?
>
> Philip> Because the subject for an "inline patch" is extracted
> Philip> from the commit
> Philip> message.
>
> Perhaps mention that in the docstring?
That should be doable.
> Anyway, I think Iʼve picked enough nits for this patch.
If there is anything more to nit, please pick.
> Robert
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Thread overview: 117+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-08-25 8:47 bug#57400: 29.0.50; Support sending patches from VC directly Antoine Kalmbach
2022-08-26 7:37 ` Philip Kaludercic
2022-08-26 10:15 ` Antoine Kalmbach
2022-08-26 10:35 ` Philip Kaludercic
2022-08-26 10:45 ` Antoine Kalmbach
2022-08-26 10:58 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-08-26 11:26 ` Philip Kaludercic
2022-08-26 11:44 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-08-26 12:05 ` Philip Kaludercic
2022-08-26 12:26 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-08-26 13:10 ` Antoine Kalmbach
2022-08-26 13:17 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-08-26 13:29 ` Philip Kaludercic
2022-08-26 14:21 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-08-27 8:21 ` Philip Kaludercic
2022-08-27 9:21 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-08-27 9:30 ` Philip Kaludercic
2022-08-26 12:08 ` Antoine Kalmbach
2022-08-26 12:28 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-08-28 4:07 ` Richard Stallman
2022-10-03 18:59 ` Philip Kaludercic
2022-10-03 19:06 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-10-03 19:23 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-10-04 19:19 ` Philip Kaludercic
2022-10-04 19:33 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-10-03 21:22 ` Philip Kaludercic
2022-10-03 21:55 ` Philip Kaludercic
2022-10-03 23:32 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-10-04 6:46 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-10-04 6:41 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-10-04 7:10 ` Philip Kaludercic
2022-10-04 8:00 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-10-04 10:40 ` Philip Kaludercic
2022-10-04 10:42 ` Philip Kaludercic
2022-10-04 12:25 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-10-04 12:24 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-10-04 18:08 ` Philip Kaludercic
2022-10-05 16:07 ` Antoine Kalmbach
2022-10-05 17:34 ` Philip Kaludercic
2022-10-05 17:48 ` Philip Kaludercic
2022-10-05 18:32 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-10-05 18:46 ` Philip Kaludercic
2022-10-05 19:08 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-10-06 8:21 ` Robert Pluim
2022-10-06 8:35 ` Philip Kaludercic
2022-10-06 8:59 ` Robert Pluim
2022-10-06 9:12 ` Philip Kaludercic
2022-10-06 11:02 ` Philip Kaludercic
2022-10-05 19:57 ` Juri Linkov
2022-10-06 12:03 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-10-07 22:48 ` Richard Stallman
2022-10-10 14:39 ` Filipp Gunbin
2022-10-10 18:58 ` Juri Linkov
2022-10-11 0:27 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-10-11 0:26 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-10-05 18:17 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-10-05 18:45 ` Philip Kaludercic
2022-10-06 9:14 ` Philip Kaludercic
2022-10-06 9:19 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-10-06 22:22 ` Dmitry Gutov
2022-10-07 6:36 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-10-07 12:06 ` Dmitry Gutov
2022-10-06 11:33 ` Robert Pluim
2022-10-06 12:38 ` Philip Kaludercic
2022-10-06 12:58 ` Robert Pluim
2022-10-06 14:37 ` Philip Kaludercic [this message]
2022-10-06 14:43 ` Robert Pluim
2022-10-06 15:54 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-10-06 16:27 ` Philip Kaludercic
2022-10-07 7:58 ` Juri Linkov
2022-10-07 11:42 ` Philip Kaludercic
2022-10-08 10:03 ` Philip Kaludercic
2022-10-08 19:34 ` Juri Linkov
2022-10-09 12:15 ` Philip Kaludercic
2022-10-10 19:03 ` Juri Linkov
2022-10-11 12:44 ` Philip Kaludercic
2022-10-11 13:58 ` Robert Pluim
2022-10-15 18:54 ` Juri Linkov
2022-10-16 9:40 ` Philip Kaludercic
2022-10-11 19:30 ` Philip Kaludercic
2022-10-11 19:47 ` Juri Linkov
2022-10-11 19:49 ` Philip Kaludercic
2022-10-12 22:01 ` Richard Stallman
2022-10-13 7:04 ` Juri Linkov
2022-10-13 21:12 ` Richard Stallman
2022-10-15 19:02 ` Juri Linkov
2022-10-13 8:55 ` Philip Kaludercic
2022-10-13 17:30 ` Juri Linkov
2022-10-13 19:44 ` Philip Kaludercic
2022-10-13 20:25 ` Philip Kaludercic
2022-10-13 20:33 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-10-13 22:05 ` Philip Kaludercic
2022-10-14 6:50 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-10-14 21:28 ` Richard Stallman
2022-10-14 21:47 ` Philip Kaludercic
2022-10-15 6:57 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-10-15 11:44 ` Philip Kaludercic
2022-10-15 12:20 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-10-15 15:15 ` Philip Kaludercic
2022-10-15 15:16 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-10-15 15:24 ` Philip Kaludercic
2022-10-10 22:01 ` Richard Stallman
2022-10-11 5:37 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-10-12 21:59 ` Richard Stallman
2022-10-06 22:10 ` Dmitry Gutov
2022-10-07 8:03 ` Philip Kaludercic
2022-10-07 12:56 ` Dmitry Gutov
2022-10-07 15:30 ` Philip Kaludercic
2022-10-07 15:47 ` Dmitry Gutov
2022-10-07 15:54 ` Philip Kaludercic
2022-10-08 22:34 ` Richard Stallman
2022-10-08 12:11 ` Philip Kaludercic
2022-10-08 12:44 ` German Pacenza
2022-10-08 13:02 ` Philip Kaludercic
2022-10-08 13:07 ` Dmitry Gutov
2022-10-08 13:42 ` Philip Kaludercic
2022-10-08 14:02 ` Dmitry Gutov
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