Improve patch handling from mailinglists

[gauteh]

I want to improve the way patches can be applied. Currently you can yank the content (raw or decoded), or the message-id. I think with some improvements various workflows could be supported. The improvements I am thinking about are:

• Make a run hook in thread_view that can take one or more message-id's, this can be used with a script that gets the filenames using notmuch and runs git am on them. You could have the script do different things depending on what tags the message has, and even add a tag to the message afterwards for your own records.
• Make a tree-view in the thread_index (#100, #180) which supports the same behavior for running hooks

Current, relevant, possibilities include:

• Copying message content
• Copying message-id
• Saving one or more messages

Eventually, there should be some suggested workflows for how to do this efficiently in the wiki. Does anyone have any experience or particular workflow they would like to see possible?

[gauteh]

With the latest improvements to Yank raw and to #181 it is now smoother to apply patchsets.

By 'marking' several messages in thread-view and using the multi-key + Y (yank raw) you get a mailbox synposis of the marked messages copied to the primary clipboard: https://github.com/astroidmail/astroid/commit/5fd2c763fbabdc9f9c6ea56d6c7d88d0425db128 explains a possible workflow:

Yank raw on multiple-patches produces a mailbox-like (without >From filtering) synthesis of the patches, suitable for git am. So to apply a patch set sent with git-send-email or similar do:

• open the thread
• mark the messages that are part of the patch (or use 'T' to mark all)
• open the multi-key
• use 'Y' to yank raw, the mbox is now in the primary clipboard
• open a terminal and navigate to your repository
• execute git am or git am -3
• press Shift-Insert (or your terminals equivalent) to paste from primary clipboard.
• press Ctrl+D to stop pasting

You can also apply individual patches by using 'Y' on a message outside multi-key mode (not part).

Inline patches can mostly be copied with 'y' (which yanks decoded text) and then be applied using git apply.

This will go into a wiki page on using astroid for appyling patches.

[gauteh]

https://github.com/astroidmail/astroid/wiki/Working-with-patches-in-Astroid

[gauteh]

@gregkh: You might be interested.

[gregkh]

@gauteh oh nice! I'll have to try this out soon, thanks for the ping.

[gauteh]

Greg Kroah-Hartman writes on februar 25, 2017 10:50:

@gauteh oh nice! I'll have to try this out soon, thanks for the ping.

Good, let me know if you have any suggestions! I imagine you have a fairly qualified opinion by now.

[gauteh]

Clipboard target is now configurable through the '"' keybinding (vim-style), the default target has been changed to CLIPBOARD since that is the only one accessible by keyboard in GTK.