From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Mike Ralphson Subject: Re: How do gmail users try out patches from this list? Date: Wed, 12 Aug 2009 09:43:37 +0100 Message-ID: References: <2729632a0908111343v73fa475fqb6353dcf2f718101@mail.gmail.com> <20090811221408.GC12956@vidovic> <200908111917.19267.wjl@icecavern.net> <4A827BF3.8080208@drmicha.warpmail.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: "Wesley J. Landaker" , Nicolas Sebrecht , git@vger.kernel.org, Michael J Gruber To: skillzero@gmail.com X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Wed Aug 12 10:43:49 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Mb9Qz-0003nN-20 for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Wed, 12 Aug 2009 10:43:49 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753669AbZHLInj (ORCPT ); Wed, 12 Aug 2009 04:43:39 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752749AbZHLIni (ORCPT ); Wed, 12 Aug 2009 04:43:38 -0400 Received: from mail-fx0-f228.google.com ([209.85.220.228]:53405 "EHLO mail-fx0-f228.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752816AbZHLIni (ORCPT ); Wed, 12 Aug 2009 04:43:38 -0400 Received: by fxm28 with SMTP id 28so1989625fxm.17 for ; Wed, 12 Aug 2009 01:43:38 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :date:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=DLFN7Is1XOW1tcZY0DjoBKLK49GFaZPZA3CqvkV1P7E=; b=r78HOjl+9iCuYTAAnm32ycYUE5iFI8jrYCrP3Tw80WU3pEWrDGJ9EOSDIkSrX6CZg/ DIxzZ1fm+Hlw6k1pUYI9w6Ogra4O9IqGD+4t36+rFO/8JBY9vBfp/gZqbvU2vR+OJlBG 3vTSaguLzJNkAAk4kMwnKSNTfQ8HykbmQ6h4o= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=diKUAedLs2hPp72l4U0GmgUZguzIMhNTomU2QgHAgv70jxCiMN/k2PB60gv3w5tmu+ 5qkw3ExeYesUYqZVqUuLTBWOIj/2PL9tMFX4DRlGbZczeFqCxjjgn/zRwQWXh7sFKrcY asLkHyzbzxDVPzzGwPpP6ebpBAuJ2XTIxPzlo= Received: by 10.223.109.200 with SMTP id k8mr410587fap.42.1250066617804; Wed, 12 Aug 2009 01:43:37 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <4A827BF3.8080208@drmicha.warpmail.net> Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: 2009/8/11 : > Sorry if this is dumb question, but I didn't see any good info in my searches. > > How do gmail users normally apply patches that come through the list? > Do you just manually copy and paste the email to patch files and use > git apply? Do you use a tool to export to mbox files and use git am? > > I've been just doing it manually via copy and paste, but it's kinda tedious. Yep, show original, copy and paste and git apply. Personally I would prefer to fetch changes using, oh, I don't know, some kind of dvcs tool... 8-) It means I don't tend to build and test many patch series until they get merged. It's a pity there's a patchwork server for many kernel.org projects, but not for the git mailing list 8-( http://patchwork.kernel.org/ http://patchwork.kernel.org/help/pwclient/ http://gitster.livejournal.com/18696.html