maildir-import-patch(1)

✨ maildir-import-patch(1) ✨

okay bestie, welcome to maildir-import-patch, a User Command, and no this is not a drill, it's literally the glow-up your code review game has been waiting for 💅

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🌸 NAME 🌸

maildir-import-patch — import a git patch series into a maildir 🦋

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

maildir-import-patch MAILDIR [git-format-patch(1) args]

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💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

So here's the tea, bestie: maildir-import-patch generates a patch series using git-format-patch(1), and then imports that series into a maildir as an e-mail thread — one message per patch, periodt. 🎀

It's giving extremely useful when you wanna provide inline feedback on a branch by e-mail and the submitter did not use git-send-email(1). Like, they skipped the whole email pipeline and now it's your problem? No worries, this tool has you covered. 🫶

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🌈 EXAMPLE 🌈

Picture this: Bob uses git-request-pull(1) to ask you to review and merge his branch 'feature'. Iconic of him. So you:

• add Bob's repository as a remote called 'bob' ✨
• check out the bob/feature branch locally 💅
• look at the commits and run some tests 🔥

And now you're lowkey obsessed with giving inline feedback on Bob's changes — pointing out which parts are ready to merge and which parts need more work. So you type:

% maildir-import-patch ~/Maildir/patches master..bob/feature

Then over in your MUA, you can reply to each e-mail in the new thread that maildir-import-patch just generated, providing line-by-line feedback on Bob's work. Main character energy, honestly. 👑

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💜 GIT CONFIGURATION KEYS 💜

• mailscripts.project-shortname — a short identifier for the project, and it gets prepended to the subject lines of generated patches, like this: "[PATCH shortname imported]". If it's unset, it defaults to the name of the root directory of the repository. 🍓

Heads up though: this key is ignored if any --subject-prefix option is present in the arguments that are gonna be passed on to git-format-patch(1). iykyk 🙈

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👀 SEE ALSO 👀

notmuch-import-patch(1), git-format-patch(1), git-send-email(1)

go read those too bestie, they're the supporting cast 💖

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🎀 AUTHOR 🎀

notmuch-import-patch was written by Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>. 💜

(yes bestie, the page says notmuch-import-patch right there in the AUTHOR section — i am simply reporting the facts, i don't make the rules 🌸)

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and that's a wrap, angel 💫 this was perl v5.40.1, brought to you by the Debian Project, and it's your girl maildir-import-patch(1) signing off — go forth and review those patches, you absolute icon 🦋✨💅