Re: [REQ/DISCUSSION] patch managing system

[Alex Kost]

Ricardo Wurmus (2016-03-23 10:41 +0300) wrote:

> Chris Marusich <address@hidden> 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’m 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 “git am” on the buffer contents, or by
> opening a shell and running “git am” on the file associated 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")

-- 
Alex