Re: git-format-patch little gripe

On Fri, 3 Nov 2006 13:50:26 -0500
Jeff King [off-list ref] wrote:

For my own workflow, I don't want to have to pick the commit out of
rev-list (or log) output. I want to find it and hit a button to say "OK,
now mail this patch." So I put _all_ of my patches into an mbox, and
then browse them with mutt. Sort of a poor man's patch browser, but then
I'm ready to jump into mailing them immediately.

I use the following script:

#!/bin/sh
root=${1:-origin}
git-format-patch -s --stdout $root >.mbox
mutt -f .mbox
rm -f .mbox

If your mail setup support imap, the patches can be dumped directly into
it rather than having to go through an mbox.  For instance you can have
something like this in your ~/.gitconfig:

[imap]
   Host = imap.server.com
   Folder = "Drafts"
   User = uname
   Pass = password

And then the above command line becomes:

git-format-patch -s --stdout $root | git-imap-send

To move all the patches into your imap drafts folder to be accessed
by whatever email client you use.

Sean