Re: [elpa] externals/debbugs c1934c0296: New option to prefer Magit over VC

[Stefan Kangas]

Michael Albinus <michael.albinus@gmx.de> writes:

> Stefan Kangas <stefankangas@gmail.com> writes:
>
> Hi Stefan,
>
>>     New option to prefer Magit over VC
>>
>>     * debbugs-gnu.el (debbugs-gnu-apply-patch-prefers-magit): New
>>     defcustom and helper function with the same name.
>>     (debbugs-gnu-apply-patch): Prefer Magit to VC when above new
>>     defcustom is non-nil.
>
> I believe this warrants to be mentioned in the debbugs-ug.texi manual.

Thanks, I've added it.  Feel free to tweak it if you think it could be
made more clear.

> Do you plan further patches to the debbugs package?

I'm planning to teach it to use "git am" as an alternative to "patch".
I think it would work better in the Magit workflow, which would
basically be to apply the patch, and then inspect the result from the
Magit status buffer.

I'm not yet sure what to do with patches that are not formatted with
"git format-patch", though.  IIUC, the VC flow using "patch" handles
that okay, but using "git am" would not.

> Shall we release a new version?

Sure, why not?  Perhaps someone will find the above useful.