From: Luben Tuikov <ltuikov@yahoo.com>
Date: Fri, 03 Nov 2006 20:37:52 GMT
Subject: Re: git-format-patch little gripe
Message-ID: <20061103203752.26472.qmail@web31810.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
In-Reply-To: <20061103185026.GA28566@coredump.intra.peff.net>

--- Jeff King <peff@peff.net> wrote:
> For my own workflow, I don't want to have to pick the commit out of
> rev-list (or log) output. I want to find it and hit a button to say "OK,
> now mail this patch." So I put _all_ of my patches into an mbox, and
> then browse them with mutt. Sort of a poor man's patch browser, but then
> I'm ready to jump into mailing them immediately.
> 
> I use the following script:
> 
> #!/bin/sh
> root=${1:-origin}
> git-format-patch -s --stdout $root >.mbox
> mutt -f .mbox
> rm -f .mbox
> 
> And then in mutt, I use this macro to bind 'b' to editing the full
> message w/ headers:
> 
> macro index b ":set edit_headers=yes<enter><resend-message>:set edit_headers=no<enter>"
> 
> I know that may be useless if you're not using mutt, but I just wanted
> to stimulate some discussion among patch submitters about how they
> actually do it. I'm not sure how configurable tig is, but it shouldn't
> be too hard to add something like this to it.

That's very cool!

   Luben