Re: Externally feeding the drafts folder -- git format-patch integration

[Elias Oltmanns <eo@nebensachen.de>]

(2014-03-04) lee <lee@yun.yagibdah.de> wrote:
> Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com> writes:
>> On Sat, 22 Feb 2014 10:20:42 +0100 Elias Oltmanns <eo@nebensachen.de> wrote: 
>> 
>> ...
EO> 2. Generate a patch series from the local commits with a command like
EO>    $ git format-patch --thread --cover-letter --to developer@example.org \
EO>    --cc devel@list.example.org --stdout > ~/Mail/git.spool
EO> 3. Fire up gnus and have the patch series stored in ~/Mail/git.spool
EO>    magically appear in the drafts group so I can edit the cover letter
EO>    and possibly annotate some of the other messages too before sending
EO>    the off.
[...]
> You can use (setq gnus-agent-queue-mail 'always) to queue all outgoing
> messages in the draft folder.  Insert messages into gnus with the
> following function (which you can put into ~/.emacs"):
[...]
> Then call emacsclient like:
> 
> 
> emacsclient -e '(my-gnus-group-mail "example.group")'
> 
> 
> Gnus should be running before you call above function.
> 
> When you use a posting style for "example.group" that involves something
> like (body :file "~/example-group-template.txt"), you can create an
> email from the command line or from a script to pull in your patch as an
> attachment.  You get a buffer to edit the mail, so you don´t need to
> queue up all outgoing mail.  Of course, you could also point to the
> patch file rather than a template that includes it as an attachment to
> have the patch directly in the message.

Thank you ever so much for this starter. It certainly looks very
promising and I'll see how far I get once I've taken the time to wrap my
head around things.

[...]
> This works fine, though gnus should have some way to automatically send
> messages from a script/command line, optionally allowing you to edit the
> message before sending it out.  The way I´m doing it is going to some
> lengths to get there.  We shouldn´t need to use mutt or the like to
> generate messages which we Cc: or Bcc: to ourselves to get them into
> gnus, especially not when we use emacs to edit them before sending them
> anyway ...

My thoughts, precisely!

Thanks again,

Elias