Ah, something else I forgot to mention: git-am requires that the patches be in .mbox format, otherwise it won't work properly. I don't think there's a way to do this in gmail since the last time I checked, it can't save e-mails in that format. To actually take advantage of this sort of thing you'd need to use a client of some sort instead of the web interface.
On Wed, 2014-06-25 at 02:59 -0400, Lyude wrote: > On Tue, 2014-06-24 at 23:40 -0700, Andrea Giammarchi wrote: > > Yeah Peter, I know how to apply a patch and no, I don't have any of > > them in my inbox, that's why I've asked what was wrong in my > > process ... right now I'm on Gmail in chrome and wayland-devel channel > > and zero attachment whatsoever. > > If you're referring to e-mail attachments that's not what he's getting > at. When you apply a patch off the mailing list you literally apply the > e-mail itself, not an attachment. Hence why you'd use git-am instead of > git-apply. git-am takes a saved copy of the e-mail (in mbox format), > extracts the inline patch for you, and applies it to the tree. It's > somewhat of a different process then just applying a plain old patches. > > It's a very different system then most projects nowadays use, since most > projects will just do pull requests and that sort of stuff :). So seeing > misunderstandings like this isn't at all unusual or something to be > disheartened about. We're not the only project to do it though, you'll > see that the linux kernel requires you to submit patches in this manner > too. It's mostly done because with organized projects like this, having > the ability to easily review a patch inline is necessary to discuss > changes in the protocol, point out typos and errors in patches, etc. > There are alternatives for this, for example Github has the ability to > allow you to comment inline on commits in pull requests, but a lot of > people here just prefer to use their e-mail clients and whatever text > editor they fancy. > > Hope I clarified things a bit! > > Cheers, > Lyude
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