Re: What do you use to receive mailed patches? (was: What do you use to send git patches?)
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Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
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- Sep 5, 2008, 14:30 UTC
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Dnia piątek 5. września 2008 16:15, Marc-André Lureau napisał:
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> On Fri, Sep 5, 2008 at 5:10 PM, Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>> If somebody could explain how they handle the git send-mail patches >>> they recieve, I would be thankful. How do you create .mbox files? What >>> is your workflow when you deal with mails? >> >> I almost always use git-format-patch to generate patches (some people >> use git-show or git-diff for proof-of-concept patches), and either use >> git-send-email (I have sendmail configured to send mails via GMail, >> but my computer is single-user machine; you can try sendemail.smpt* >> options instead, if you have appropriate Perl modules installed), or >> use KMail: Message> Insert file, ensuring that in Options I have Word >> wrapping turned off. >> >> In some rare case I used 'stg mail' (also via properly configured >> sendmail). > > My question was about handling the patches you receive. Sending > configuration is quite easy.
Sorry, my mistake.
Handling received patches is even simpler. In KMail/KNode us Save As (with .txt or .patch extension), the "git am --3way <file>" (or, but only once, "stg import -m < <file>").
-- Jakub Narebski Poland