# teach git-am about patch series manipulation?

1 messages from 2013-09-21 to 2013-09-21. Participants: Duy Nguyen.
Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/34980

## Duy Nguyen, 2013-09-21 06:32

Subject: teach git-am about patch series manipulation?
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Hi,

The development of packv4 is fun. Like git, patches are exchanged over
email. But the series is long and sometimes I want to modify or even
drop an old patch without sending 90 mails to the list. I wonder if we
should teach git-am more about patch manipulation so that git am could
be told to:

 - fix an old patch (like rebase's "fixup!")
 - delete an old patch (I'm guessing an empty patch with "!drop"
prefix in subject)
 - reorder some patches (how??)

I could publish my branch somewhere and ask for pull. But I'd like to
see if it could be done via email only. And even if I ask to pull, I
need to describe my changes manually. If I can give instructions to
git-am in human-readable form, then the receiver gets my change
summary automatically.
-- 
Duy

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