Re: Applying patches sent via email

[Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net>]

Štěpán Němec <stepnem@gmail.com> writes:

> 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

This is great! Another very useful reference. Obviously many people have
had similar needs...

Thanks,
Eric