Applying patches directly from emails?

[Nicolas Petton]

Daniel Kahn Gillmor <dkg at fifthhorseman.net> writes:

> Hi Nicolas--

Hi Daniel,

> If you're asking about notmuch-emacs, I just use "|" (or ". |" if a
> MIME subpart is the patch instead of the whole message) to pipe the
> patch into some command i care about.

That'd work, but I was hoping for something more integrated.

For Emacs development & GNUS, there's `debbugs-gnu-apply-patch', which,
given a root directory, will apply a patch, inlined or attached to the
email, to the Emacs repository.

Cheers,
Nico
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