From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Alex Kost Subject: Re: [REQ/DISCUSSION] patch managing system Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2016 11:53:32 +0300 Message-ID: <877fgsqmsz.fsf@gmail.com> References: <87h9g0eq1c.fsf@grrlz.net> <87d1qogcfw.fsf@grrlz.net> <87h9fz7pe0.fsf@gnu.org> <87egb2ybhy.fsf@grrlz.net> <8760wetr5f.fsf@gnu.org> <87mvppvm4g.fsf@gmail.com> <877fgt3akv.fsf@elephly.net> <87wpot1thi.fsf@gmail.com> <87y498sui6.fsf@gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:56238) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aj11L-00017z-VB for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 24 Mar 2016 04:53:36 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aj11I-0006ZI-Q8 for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 24 Mar 2016 04:53:35 -0400 In-Reply-To: <87y498sui6.fsf@gnu.org> ("Ludovic \=\?utf-8\?Q\?Court\=C3\=A8s\=22'\?\= \=\?utf-8\?Q\?s\?\= message of "Wed, 23 Mar 2016 23:24:17 +0100") List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: Ludovic =?utf-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?= Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org Ludovic Court=C3=A8s (2016-03-24 01:24 +0300) wrote: > Alex Kost skribis: > >> Ricardo Wurmus (2016-03-23 10:41 +0300) wrote: >> >>> Chris Marusich writes: >>> >>>> While we're talking about patches, I'm curious: how are other people >>>> managing the patches? In particular, what does the workflow look like >>>> for people who are committing? Do you manually download the patch (or >>>> patches) to a temporary folder, view it/them, and if you like what you >>>> see, commit it with "git am" to a local repo, then push to origin? >>> >>> I=E2=80=99m using an email client in Emacs, so the email as well as the= attached >>> patch is shown in a regular text buffer. When I see the patch I can >>> directly apply it by running =E2=80=9Cgit am=E2=80=9D on the buffer con= tents, or by >>> opening a shell and running =E2=80=9Cgit am=E2=80=9D on the file associ= ated with the >>> buffer. >> >> In Magit, one can use "w w" to apply patches, and "w m" if they >> are saved in a "maildir" file, as can be done in Gnus by selecting >> several articles (in Summary buffer) and pressing "o". >> >> See (info "(magit) Applying patches") and (info "(gnus) Saving Articles") > > That seems less efficient than what Andy suggests (which is what I do as > well), no? I just named one of the possibilities. People are free to decide what is more efficient for them :-) --=20 Alex