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

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

[Benjamin Slade]

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).


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

[Felix Lechner via]

Hi Benjamin,

On Mon, Jun 10 2024, Benjamin Slade wrote:

> so was wondering if anyone had a good Magit workflow

I use the 'W' (that's a capital W) command in Magit and then 'c' for
"create" with all the bells and whistles, ie.

    - "C-m b" for base commit;
    - "C-m v" for reroll count;

and for sets involving more than one patch

    - "C-m l" for cover letter; and
    - "C-m o" for output directory.

Then I use 'git send-mail' but I have yet to check out the growing array
of features in our 'mumi' command-line tool.  It may be helpful with
sending mails now, too.

Sorry I could not be more helpful.

Kind regards
Felix

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

[James Thomas]

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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