Re: using magit (and maybe mu4e) for sending patches to Guix?

[James Thomas <jimjoe@gmx.net>]

Benjamin Slade wrote:

> Hi Guix,
>
> There was a discussion 4 or so years ago on this topic (see
> <https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/help-guix/2020-11/msg00099.html>
> ), but I was wondering if anyone might have additional advice at this
> point. (I've got a pending patch series I want to get properly
> submitted.)
>
> I send occasional patches to Guix, and I often forget and so mess up
> the process in some way
> [<https://guix.gnu.org/manual/en/html_node/Sending-a-Patch-Series.html>].
> I'm used to doing things in Emacs with Magit and so was wondering if
> anyone had a good Magit workflow (possibly though not necessarily
> involving the email bit using mu4e).

I used to use something like this (IIRC):

M-&
git send-email --sendmail-cmd=echo HEAD^..HEAD
RET

Then on the first prompt, move to the '/tmp/..' on top and use C-x C-f
M-n RET to open it. Then C-d on the prompt so that I also get the rest
of the headers, to copy into the compose buffer.

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