Re: Sending patch with Gnus

[Thierry Volpiatto]

Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <address@hidden> writes:

> Francis Moreau <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> Since Gnus is using Git as SCM, I'm wondering if some of you have a
>> magical function that can be used to send patch easily.
>>
>> For example, git-format-patch(1) generates a patch with all header
>> fields set up such as "Subject, From..." and I'd like to create a new
>> mail automatically from the generated patch using the header fields in
>> the patch.
>>
>> Currently I'm starting a new mail and in the message body I'm inserting
>> the output from git-format-patch(1) and then I do some clean up
>> _manually_.
>>
>> Using git-send-email(1) with its ton of options is too complex for me
>> when I need to send only 1 patch.
>
> This sounds like a good idea, but I think that it might belong more to
> vc-mode than to Gnus, so I've Cc'd it to emacs-devel.
>
> Does the VC system have a general "make-an-email-from-this-patch"
> mechanism? 
DVC have this.
M-x dvc-export-via-mail

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