Re: Sending patch with Gnus

[Francis Moreau <francis.moro@gmail.com>]

Hello Tassilo,

Tassilo Horn <tassilo@member.fsf.org> writes:

> Francis Moreau <francis.moro@gmail.com> writes:
>
> Hi Francis,
>
>>> I do the same as Francis, e.g., insert and edit.  And at least with
>>> git, you should write your accompanying prose text below the
>>> signature.  That's a bit awkward, but it allows to pipe the complete
>>> email to "git am" (is it am?) without having to extract the patch
>>> manually first.
>>
>> I'm not sure to understand this.
>>
>> What do you mean by "accompanying prose text" ?
>
> The text in which you explain for what it's good for, where you ask the
> list to review it, in contrast to the 1-line summary git puts in the
> subject and the following full commit message, which starts the mail.

Ah I see, then I think you should place such text like this:


  [PATCH] A cool patch to speed up Gnus ;)
  
  A full commit message
  
  ---
  
  The text placed here is usually a message that is addressed to the list
  but won't be part of the commit.
  
   texi/ChangeLog |    4 ++++
   texi/gnus.texi |    2 +-
   2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
  
  diff --git a/texi/ChangeLog b/texi/ChangeLog
  index 8c0fec4..bf494ee 100644
  --- a/texi/ChangeLog
  +++ b/texi/ChangeLog

  [...]
  
  -- 
  1.7.3.2

-- 
Francis