From: Kristoffer Haugsbakk <kristofferhaugsbakk@fastmail.com>
Date: Wed, 01 Oct 2025 08:15:35 GMT
Subject: Re: How mantainers check Git diffs and patches?
Message-ID: <ba6b9a5e-72b5-4d66-a484-37140438702a@app.fastmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <aNygY8Cm7LEaBzV6@localhost>

On Wed, Oct 1, 2025, at 05:30, Henrique Soares wrote:
> This is a simple question I have related to the PR diff review process.
>
> How Git maintainers use to check diffs and review the code? I mean,
> sometimes I see that there are some large PATCHES that is hard or
> probably impossible to review only using e-mail client.
>
> Do you use some syntax highlight in client e-mail; any pipeline that
> automatically download e-mails and apply to a local branch; or for each
> PR you save the e-mail file then "git apply" to review / test the diff?
>
> This isn't a technical question, I'm just curious about how you do it.

Here is a relevant message (2016).

https://lore.kernel.org/git/20160809113703.57irthzzpg6j3dmv@sigill.intra.peff.net/