Applying patches directly from emails?

[Jani Nikula]

On Sat, 23 Jul 2016, Daniel Kahn Gillmor <dkg at fifthhorseman.net> wrote:
> Hi Nicolas--
>
> On Fri 2016-07-22 17:02:03 -0400, Nicolas Petton wrote:
>
>> I'd like to be able to apply patches sent from emails, either as
>> attachments or inlined.
>>
>> Notmuch can show inline patches as diffs, which is very handy, but I
>> didn't find a builtin way to apply these inline patches (or attached
>> ones) directly from the email, maybe I overlooked something?
>
> 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.

Additionally, you can expand all the messages you want applied, collapse
others, and use "C-u |" to pipe all open messages.

> For example, if it's a git-format-generated e-mail, i'll hit the pipe
> character ("|") and then in the minibuffer i'll do:
>
>   cd ~/src/notmuch/notmuch && git am

I usually end up doing M-x cd RET first, with the convenience of
directory history and completion, then piping to git am. The end result
is the same.


BR,
Jani.