The script appp.sh can be used with the External Editor extension for Mozilla Thunderbird in order to be able to send inline patches in an easy way. Signed-off-by: Lukas Sandström <lukass@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- Resending. It would be nice if this ended up in contrib/ /Lukas Documentation/SubmittingPatches | 5 +++ contrib/thunderbird-patch-inline/README | 20 +++++++++++ contrib/thunderbird-patch-inline/appp.sh | 55 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 3 files changed, 80 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) create mode 100644 contrib/thunderbird-patch-inline/README create mode 100755 contrib/thunderbird-patch-inline/appp.sh diff --git a/Documentation/SubmittingPatches b/Documentation/SubmittingPatches index 0e155c9..7c16852 100644 --- a/Documentation/SubmittingPatches +++ b/Documentation/SubmittingPatches @@ -419,6 +419,11 @@ settings but I haven't tried, yet. mail.identity.default.compose_html => false mail.identity.id?.compose_html => false +( Lukas Sandström ) + +There is a script in contrib/thunderbird-patch-inline which can help +you include patches with Thunderbird in an easy way. To use it, do the +steps above and then use the script as the external editor. Gnus ---- diff --git a/contrib/thunderbird-patch-inline/README b/contrib/thunderbird-patch-inline/README new file mode 100644 index 0000000..39f96aa --- /dev/null +++ b/contrib/thunderbird-patch-inline/README @@ -0,0 +1,20 @@ +appp.sh is a script that is supposed to be used together with ExternalEditor +for Mozilla Thundebird. It will let you include patches inline in e-mails +in an easy way. + +Usage: +- Generate the patch with git format-patch. +- Start writing a new e-mail in Thunderbird. +- Press the external editor button (or Ctrl-E) to run appp.sh +- Select the previosly generated patch file. +- Finish editing the e-mail. + +Any text that is entered into the message editor before appp.sh is called +will be moved to the section between the --- and the diffstat. + +All S-O-B:s and Cc:s in the patch will be added to the CC list. + +To set it up, just install External Editor and tell it to use appp.sh as the +editor. + +Zenity is a required dependency. diff --git a/contrib/thunderbird-patch-inline/appp.sh b/contrib/thunderbird-patch-inline/appp.sh new file mode 100755 index 0000000..cc518f3 --- /dev/null +++ b/contrib/thunderbird-patch-inline/appp.sh @@ -0,0 +1,55 @@ +#!/bin/bash +# Copyright 2008 Lukas Sandström <luksan@xxxxxxxxx> +# +# AppendPatch - A script to be used together with ExternalEditor +# for Mozilla Thunderbird to properly include pathes inline i e-mails. + +# ExternalEditor can be downloaded at http://globs.org/articles.php?lng=en&pg=2 + +CONFFILE=~/.appprc + +SEP="-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=# Don't remove this line #=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-" +if [ -e "$CONFFILE" ] ; then + LAST_DIR=`grep -m 1 "^LAST_DIR=" "${CONFFILE}"|sed -e 's/^LAST_DIR=//'` + cd "${LAST_DIR}" +else + cd > /dev/null +fi + +PATCH=$(zenity --file-selection) + +if [ "$?" != "0" ] ; then + #zenity --error --text "No patchfile given." + exit 1 +fi + +cd - > /dev/null + +SUBJECT=`sed -n -e '/^Subject: /p' "${PATCH}"` +HEADERS=`sed -e '/^'"${SEP}"'$/,$d' $1` +BODY=`sed -e "1,/${SEP}/d" $1` +CMT_MSG=`sed -e '1,/^$/d' -e '/^---$/,$d' "${PATCH}"` +DIFF=`sed -e '1,/^---$/d' "${PATCH}"` + +CCS=`echo -e "$CMT_MSG\n$HEADERS" | sed -n -e 's/^Cc: \(.*\)$/\1,/gp' \ + -e 's/^Signed-off-by: \(.*\)/\1,/gp'` + +echo "$SUBJECT" > $1 +echo "Cc: $CCS" >> $1 +echo "$HEADERS" | sed -e '/^Subject: /d' -e '/^Cc: /d' >> $1 +echo "$SEP" >> $1 + +echo "$CMT_MSG" >> $1 +echo "---" >> $1 +if [ "x${BODY}x" != "xx" ] ; then + echo >> $1 + echo "$BODY" >> $1 + echo >> $1 +fi +echo "$DIFF" >> $1 + +LAST_DIR=`dirname "${PATCH}"` + +grep -v "^LAST_DIR=" "${CONFFILE}" > "${CONFFILE}_" +echo "LAST_DIR=${LAST_DIR}" >> "${CONFFILE}_" +mv "${CONFFILE}_" "${CONFFILE}" -- 1.5.3.7 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
