Re: Sending patch with Gnus

[Francis Moreau]

Tassilo Horn <address@hidden> writes:

> On Wednesday 15 December 2010 20:21:31 Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen wrote:
>
>> > Currently I'm starting a new mail and in the message body I'm
>> > inserting the output from git-format-patch(1) and then I do some
>> > clean up _manually_.
>> >
>> > Using git-send-email(1) with its ton of options is too complex for
>> > me when I need to send only 1 patch.
>> 
>> This sounds like a good idea, but I think that it might belong more to
>> vc-mode than to Gnus, so I've Cc'd it to emacs-devel.
>
> I do the same as Francis, e.g., insert and edit.  And at least with git,
> you should write your accompanying prose text below the signature.
> That's a bit awkward, but it allows to pipe the complete email to "git
> am" (is it am?) without having to extract the patch manually first.

I'm not sure to understand this.

What do you mean by "accompanying prose text" ?

-- 
Francis