Re: master 4803fba487 1/2: 'C-x v v' on a diff buffer commits it as a patch (bug#52349)

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2022 20:11:52 +0300
> Cc: larsi@gnus.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
> From: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov@yandex.ru>
> 
> On 30.08.2022 20:05, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> >> Indeed, just 'M-! git apply' before using 'vc-checkin-patch' will do the 
> >> job
> >> in case of an external patch.
> > Unless some of the hunks are wrong or produce conflicts or are
> > rejected due to 1001 reasons.  Which is exactly the use case I thought
> > this enabled.  Sorry for misreading.
> 
> Not sure how we could possibly automate that problem away.

You don't need to.  Aborting a botched patch is easy; once the
problematic hunks are known (they are announced by Patch or by
"git apply"), you use this facility to filter them out, and
patch/commit again.