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From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
To: Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net>
Cc: ding@gnus.org
Subject: Re: Applying patches sent via email
Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2021 23:50:50 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87bl75opc5.fsf@gnus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87h7gxao1y.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> (Eric Abrahamsen's message of "Tue, 13 Jul 2021 14:42:17 -0700")

Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net> writes:

> 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.

If it's a patch generated from Git, then "git am" does indeed work
fine.  For other random patches, I use `debbugs-gnu-apply-patch' (from
the debbugs package), which tries to do a bunch of heuristics that...
sometimes work OK?  I mean, I tweaked it a lot over the years, and it's
geared towards Emacs, but...

-- 
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
   bloggy blog: http://lars.ingebrigtsen.no


  reply	other threads:[~2021-07-13 21:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-07-13 21:42 Eric Abrahamsen
2021-07-13 21:50 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen [this message]
2021-07-13 22:38   ` Eric Abrahamsen
2021-07-15  4:33     ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-07-15 16:15 ` Štěpán Němec
2021-07-15 17:37   ` Eric Abrahamsen
2021-07-15 20:06 ` Tassilo Horn
2021-07-16 14:47   ` Eric Abrahamsen

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