Re: Using thunderbird to post/apply patches?

[Brandon Casey <casey@nrlssc.navy.mil>]

Martin Langhoff wrote:
> Is there anyone using thunderbird/mozilla to post patches with
> additional email commentary like Junio and Linus do? Are there good
> tricks for this? Or otherwise a similar MUA that does things right?
> 
> The 2 workflows I am after are...
> 
>  - Load up a patch created with git-format-patch into my email editor
> to add some commentary before sending. Should not munge the patch
> itself!

I use git-send-email to first send the patch to myself.
When it shows up in thunderbird, I Right-click and select "Edit As New..."
Add my text, update the recipients, and voila.

If you're replying to a previous message, you can get the Message-ID to
supply to git-send-email by selecting View->Headers->All. Copy&Paste
everything between the angle brackets.

I have these options set in Edit->Preferences:
  Display->Formatting->Display emoticons as graphics: unchecked, it turns
    HEAD^2 into HEAD squared
  Composition->General->Wrap plain text messages at 0 characters
                                                    ^

I also have mailnews.send_plaintext_flowed => false as suggested in
SubmittingPatches. There is a different suggestion in that document
you may want to read.

>  - Feed an email I am reading to git-apply-mbox so that if it's
> reasonably formatted as a patch it will do the right thing and apply
> it.

I just Right-click and Save As...

cat <saved_as> | git am

-brandon