[Freeipa-devel] A lazy programmer gets tired of git format-patch

[Adam Young]

On 09/17/2010 11:12 AM, John Dennis wrote:
> On 09/17/2010 10:57 AM, Adam Young wrote:
>> On 09/17/2010 10:40 AM, John Dennis wrote:
>>> On 09/17/2010 10:28 AM, Adam Young wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Here’s a little ditty I wrote to et patches in the format we use 
>>>> for the
>>>> FreeIPA mailing list:
>>>
>>> Attached is my python script to do something similar. It keeps all the
>>> patches I've generated in a patch directory, numbers them, sends them
>>> as a properly formatted email (optional).
>
>> Thanks, John.  I'll make it non 'John Dennis Specific' and post online,
>> if you don't mind.
>
> Sure, no problem. I think the only jdennis stuff is in the config 
> table, the thinking was someone else could just edit the default 
> config values for their private copy. But if you were feeling 
> ambitious maybe it could read the config from a .ini file in $HOME 
> using Python's config parser module.
>
> Also I noticed a cut-n-paste error in the usage function, the example 
> was left over from something else, should be deleted.
>

Think I'll let you hack it, as I am not in Python mode at the moment:

Most of the values should be accessable from git config, or via reading 
the git config file

git config --get user.email

You can get the home directory from $HOME,
$HOME/.gitconfig


So I started playing with thuis, and you can do:

$ git config --add user.patchnum 5
$ git config --get user.patchnum
5