Re: Applying patches sent via email

["Štěpán Němec" <stepnem@gmail.com>]

On Tue, 13 Jul 2021 14:42:17 -0700
Eric Abrahamsen wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I've always been slightly annoyed at the hoops I have to jump through to
> apply git patches that I get in email to various repos that I have on
> disk. I'm starting to realize that it's actually easier than I thought
> (specifically, "git am" is much more capable than I realized), and I'm
> thinking that there's only a couple bits of glue missing, which means
> someone has probably already done this.
>
> Does anyone have a facility that can be used to apply git patches
> received via email to local repos? I'd like equivalents to both
> `gnus-summary-pipe-part' and `gnus-summary-pipe-output' -- ie applicable
> either to a mime part or to the message as a whole -- where it prompts
> me for a local directory (git repo), possibly for a git branch in that
> repo, then handles the running of "git am" for me.

For git, piem.el comes close to those requirements:

https://docs.kyleam.com/piem/

It lets you define local repository locations corresponding to mailing
list addresses and creates a branch to apply the patch(es) cleanly
(that's customizable).

It also lists some other tools of potential interest:

https://docs.kyleam.com/piem/Related-projects-and-tools.html#Related-projects-and-tools

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Štěpán