Nicest way to send and apply Guix patchsets via magit?

Nicest way to send and apply Guix patchsets via magit?

[Christopher Lemmer Webber]

I know a number of developers of guix here are also Magit fans.

When you have a patchset, how do you usually send it... and in the
reverse direction, how do you usually go about applying a patchset?  I'm
going to admit awkwardly that what I've done historically is generate
patches one by one and manually start a thread but it's obviously
suboptimal.

(I also use mu4e.)

Not urgent, just wondering!  There has to be a better way than what I've
done. ;)

Re: Nicest way to send and apply Guix patchsets via magit?

[John Soo]

Hi Christopher,

I usually use the log in Magit, highlight the commits I want and then use W c c to create a patch set. I submit them as attachments on one email usually (I use dired and gnus for that). I know threading (one patch per email) works better with tools like patchwork but I don’t want to drop to git send-mail.

One caveat is that I’m not sure how well my patch sets are received. I will accept any criticism there. 

Curious to know how others work,

John

Re: Nicest way to send and apply Guix patchsets via magit?

[Pierre Neidhardt]

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For me, "git send-email" unpredictably drops some patches without
notice.  I don't know if it's a bug with our package or with upstream.

About Magit, I'd also recommend to "insert base commit" when creating
the patchset.  Something like "W c C-m b ... c".

Cheers!

-- 
Pierre Neidhardt
https://ambrevar.xyz/

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Re: Nicest way to send and apply Guix patchsets via magit?

[Christopher Lemmer Webber]

Thank you to both of you!  I will give these approaches a try.

Pierre Neidhardt writes:

> For me, "git send-email" unpredictably drops some patches without
> notice.  I don't know if it's a bug with our package or with upstream.
>
> About Magit, I'd also recommend to "insert base commit" when creating
> the patchset.  Something like "W c C-m b ... c".
>
> Cheers!