Re: [REQ/DISCUSSION] patch managing system

[Alex Kost]

Ludovic Courtès (2016-03-24 01:24 +0300) wrote:

> Alex Kost <address@hidden> skribis:
>
>> 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")
>
> 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 :-)

-- 
Alex