Re: Why are so many great packages not trying to get included in GNU Emacs? WAS: Re: Making Emacs more friendly to newcomers

[Alan Third]

On Sat, Jun 13, 2020 at 05:33:40PM +0300, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > Date: Sat, 13 Jun 2020 16:23:31 +0200 (CEST)
> > From: Alan Third <alan@idiocy.org>
> > Cc: hi-angel@yandex.ru, stefan@marxist.se, emacs-devel@gnu.org
> > 
> > > > Am I missing something here?
> > > 
> > > I don't know.  What did you mean by "apply"?
> > 
> > git am ~/Downloads/bug_41684_message_5.mbox
> 
> I didn't have an mbox file, I only had an email message which was not
> in git-format-patch format, and whose commit log message needed some
> work.
> 
> Anyway, I will gladly delegate the job of pushing these forgotten
> patches to someone else, if they volunteer (or just do it even without
> volunteering).  I only pushed this because no one else did, for more
> than a week.  I thought I was doing okay by following up on those
> patches.  Or am I missing something?

No, I didn't intend to attack you, I was just curious because I would
have thought it should be easy for Emacs to take the email
(git-format-patch format is a plain email, as is the mbox format) and
pipe it straight into git am.

-- 
Alan Third