From: Petr Baudis Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2005 14:51:00 GMT Subject: Re: [RFC] git email submissions Message-ID: <20051116145100.GY30496@pasky.or.cz> In-Reply-To: <437B4472.1080401@pobox.com> Dear diary, on Wed, Nov 16, 2005 at 03:38:42PM CET, I got a letter where Jeff Garzik said that... > For people without _any_ hosting, it would be nice to give them a method > to submit some git changes via email. What kind of people have no hosting whatsoever? There is plenty of free web hosting sites, and that should be enough...? > - is this all pointless, since the submittor could just email patches? > [IMO no, git trees are better merges than emailed patches] Couldn't you just look at the applies-to string of the first patch in the series, branch up from that commit, and at the end of the series do the merge? No special tool required, just a bit smarter applier. -- Petr "Pasky" Baudis Stuff: http://pasky.or.cz/ VI has two modes: the one in which it beeps and the one in which it doesn't.