Exchange historically had a tendency to mangle emails sent through it (whitespace changes, line wrap, etc), which is obviously bad news for patchmails. I dunno if it's any better these days.
git-send-email also has some quirks for Outlook which have been recently merged.
[1]: https://drewdevault.com/2022/07/25/Code-review-with-aerc.htm...
Then you don't need that message to be in a file-based inbox that is accessible from your git repo.
And in that case you are still likely going to have to copy and paste something to get the correct path.
And I think you may underestimate the power of stgit. You can manage thousands of patches concurrently, no problem. If you're a maintainer getting patches from loads of people all the time, this is valuable. stgit has it's origins in quilt, which in turn has its origins in Andrew Morton's patch scripts[1], and I know for a fact that Andrew Morton actually managed thousands of patches at a time for years in his work on the linux kernel, because I once sent him a patch against those scripts, and he complained it was slow because I used an O(n^2) algorithm, which worked fine with a handful of patches, and I asked him how many patches he had, and he told me a number that was multiple thousands, so this isn't a hypothetical example.
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barbazoo•10mo ago
Neat.
johnrob•10mo ago
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smcameron•10mo ago
https://github.com/neilbrown/wiggle
although on debian based systems I think you can just "apt install wiggle"
johnisgood•10mo ago
I know about wiggle, but I have not used it, to be honest.
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OskarS•10mo ago
I personally approaches stashes as undoable "clean up", and I never have anything really important that I want to save there. If I do have something like that, I just commit with a "WIP <some-descriptive-string>" message and don't push it, then a "git reset --mixed HEAD^" when I want to get back to it.
However, just FYI: you can "grep" your stashes really easily if you want to. just "git stash list -p" gives you the diffs for all the stashes, by default in "less" where you can search them, but you can pipe it to grep if you want. I somewhat frequently do that with "git log", if I want to know "when did this variable change?" or whatever, just "git log -p" to get the log with diffs in less, then search for whatever it was with a slash.