Often, people (including myself) will write emails that
can almost be applied with git/import. This changes
git/diff and git/import so that things will generally
work even when assembling diffs by hand:
1. git/import becomes slightly more lax:
^diff ...
^--- ...
will both be detected as the start of a patch.
2. git/diff produces the same format of diff
as git/export, starting with paths:
--- a/path/to/file
+++ b/path/to/file
which means that the 'ape/patch -p1' used
within git/import will just work.
So with this, if you send an email to the mailing list,
write up a committable description, and append the
output of git/diff to the end of the email, git/import
should just work.
[this patch was send through the mailing list using the
above procedure, and will be committed with git/import
to verify that it works as advertised]
