From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: der.herr@hofr.at (Nicholas Mc Guire)
Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2017 08:16:20 +0000
Subject: How to get patches from e-mail client?
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On Mon, Apr 17, 2017 at 08:02:32AM +0000, Amit Kumar wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 17, 2017 at 03:52:42PM +0800, Rock Lee wrote:
> > Hi:
> > If I want to get a patch and use "git am" to merge it into my project,
> > how can I do? I mean I can copy and paste a patch from my e-mail
> > client, but it is too silly. Is there any way to save a email as a
> > patch?
> Run mutt. Select the patch you want to download using up/down arrow key.
> Press s. Delete the mailbox name provide using Backspace key and provide
> path on local filesystem e.g. ~/patches/logical_name.patch. It will ask
> to save, yes is default, so press Enter.
> 
> Now your patch is saved on local filesystem. Create a topic branch e.g.
> Your on master,
> git checkout -b work
> 
> Now you are on topic branch work, run as follows,
> 
> git am ~/patches/logical_name.patch
> 
> If you are on the right tree then it should apply the patch and commit.
> If something goes wrong, please follow the instructions provided by git.
> 
> I think this will help.
>
you can simplify this in mutt by adding:

macro index A '| git am -s'

to your ~/.muttrc 
To apply a patch simply move into the repository you want to 
work on open mutt and hit  A  at that email to pipe it into 
git am -s  and apply it.

thx!
hofrat