From: Alex Riesen Date: Wed, 12 Aug 2009 12:51:46 GMT Subject: Re: How do gmail users try out patches from this list? Message-ID: <81b0412b0908120551x43c9c429k3dad24616acf7de@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <2729632a0908111343v73fa475fqb6353dcf2f718101@mail.gmail.com> On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 22:43, wrote: > Sorry if this is dumb question, but I didn't see any good info in my searches. > > How do gmail users normally apply patches that come through the list? > Do you just manually copy and paste the email to patch files and use > git apply? Do you use a tool to export to mbox files and use git am? > > I've been just doing it manually via copy and paste, but it's kinda tedious. "Show original", save the page into a file (it's text/plain), remove the first line of spaces, and do "git am" on the file. Works every time.