Re: patch question: any tool to download patches from guix patch mailing list?

[Christopher Baines <mail@cbaines.net>]

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Andy Tai <atai@atai.org> writes:

> Hi, this is more a developer question:
>
> Guix patches are posted to guix-patches mailing list.   Is there any
> tool that makes it easy to download a particular patch series from the
> mailing list archive or the Guix issue web site so it is easy to apply
> a patch series to a local checkout of the guix git repo?
>
> This is to mainly easily test guix package definition patches.
>
> (There seems to be tool like b4 or patchworks for Linux kernel
> developers and their mailing lists but not sure if similar tools exist
> for GNU (or Guix specific) development mailing lists)
>
> (not sure if this question shall be posted to guix-devel; I try here first).

The qa-frontpage (at qa.guix.gnu.org) tries to apply patches and push
branches for each issue to a Git repository (currently here [1]).

1: https://git.guix-patches.cbaines.net/guix-patches/

That's mostly so that it can test the patch series, but it might be
useful to you as well.

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