How to use git am to apply patches from email messages?

Question

I am pretty familiar with git(the basic stuff atleast-branches, merges,collaboration with peers etc.) but the other day a friend of mine told me that we could use git with o

Answer 1

Patchwork workaround

https://github.com/getpatchwork/patchwork

Since no one seems to know how to convert emails to mbox with readily available tools, many of those cornerstone dinosaur projects projects have an associated, sometimes officially recommended, patchwork instance running, many of them hosted on https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/ e.g.:

• https://patchwork.kernel.org/ Linux kernel
• https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/project/qemu-devel/list/ QEMU
• https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/project/gcc/list/ GCC, which includes GDB which is your original use case
• https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/project/glibc/list/ glibc

Patchwork subscribes to the list, and parses the patches generated by git send-email, and allows you to download a patch.

So yes, yet another tooling layer on top of email...

Thunderbird export to mbox

Asked at: What is the easiest way to apply git series of patches from Thunderbird No answer so far.

See also

• https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/80519/how-do-i-get-a-linux-kernel-patch-set-from-the-mailing-list
• How to apply a patch generated with git format-patch?