Add Support for git send-email

nikhiljha commented 5 years ago

Problem description

Many open source projects, especially within the Linux sphere (and perhaps most notably Git itself), ask pull requests to be sent in through email. Git has a full set of tools built in to do this already, they just need to be represented in the GUI.

A typical workflow on both the sending and receiving end can be found here. A TL;DR-style list of commands for it can be found here.

Preferred solution

For people contributing to such projects...

Add a GUI to configure all the things that git needs to send email correctly.
Allow selecting commits > right click > create patch and send mail. (Something along the lines of git send-email -10 --cover-letter --annotate and have a GUI to set the subject and add a description.)

For people on the receiving end...

Allow pasting in a patch URL to automatically add new commits from that patch. (Pipe the patch file into git am.)

Alternatives

None.

warmwaffles commented 3 years ago

This would be a nice feature to have. I accomplish this through the command line right now, but would be great to have this apart of merge.

mpldr commented 3 years ago

Some mailinglist providers, for example sourcehut, allow exporting patches as mbox files. Support for them would be very useful.

sublimehq / sublime_merge

Add Support for git send-email #245