Re: Access to CVS

[Christian Neukirchen <chneukirchen@xxxxxxxxx>]

Frank Terbeck <ft@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> That's not very convenient. I don't mind the mail going through the
> mailing list. That's good for review and stuff like that. But it would
> be pretty neat, if I could save a mail from my MUA somewhere and run
> "git am foo.patch" on it. If that would extract the X-Seq: number from
> the mail and put it in front of the first line of the commit message,
> then that would require no manual intervention at all. (Well, that and
> an automatically generated ChangeLog instead of a manually updated one.)
>
> I'd need to take a look at git-am to see whether there is a hook that
> would let us do something like that.

Just write a tool that takes the mail, extracts X-Seq: and fiddles it
into the Subject.  Then pipe that into git-am.

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Christian Neukirchen  <chneukirchen@xxxxxxxxx>  http://chneukirchen.org