Re: master 4803fba487 1/2: 'C-x v v' on a diff buffer commits it as a patch (bug#52349)

[Dmitry Gutov]

On 30.08.2022 20:37, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2022 20:11:52 +0300
> > Cc:larsi@gnus.org,emacs-devel@gnu.org
> > From: Dmitry Gutov<dgutov@yandex.ru>
> >
> > On 30.08.2022 20:05, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > > > Indeed, just 'M-! git apply' before using 'vc-checkin-patch' will do the job
> > > > in case of an external patch.
> > > Unless some of the hunks are wrong or produce conflicts or are
> > > rejected due to 1001 reasons.  Which is exactly the use case I thought
> > > this enabled.  Sorry for misreading.
> > Not sure how we could possibly automate that problem away.
> You don't need to.  Aborting a botched patch is easy; once the
> problematic hunks are known (they are announced by Patch or by
> "git apply"), you use this facility to filter them out, and
> patch/commit again.

But filtering those out is not what one usually wants to do.

It's more common to want to install all the included changes, even if 
some might require fixing.