Working with patches in Astroid

Applying a single patch

1. Open the message
2. Press Y to yank the raw source of the message to the primary clipboard
3. Open a terminal (or the drop-down terminal using |)
4. Navigate to the repository
5. Apply the patch using git am (or typically git am -3)
6. Press Shift-Insert to paste the patch into stdin
7. Press Ctrl-D to complete the paste

Applying a series of patches

1. Open the thread
2. Mark the messages containing patches using t (or T to mark all)
3. Press ; to apply an action to all marked messages
4. Press Y to create an mbox with a synthesis of the raw marked messages, this is stored on the clipboard
5. Open a terminal (or the drop-down terminal using |)
6. Navigate to the repository
7. Apply the patch using git am (or typically git am -3)
8. Press Shift-Insert to paste the patch into stdin
9. Press Ctrl-D to complete the paste

Saving a series of patches for later merging

1. Open the thread
2. Mark the messages containing patches using t (or T to mark all)
3. Press ; to apply an action to all marked messages
4. Press s to save the marked messages individually to a desired directory
5. Apply the patches using git am

Applying an inline diff

1. Open the message
2. Press y to yank the decoded message content to the primary clipboard
3. Open a terminal (or the drop-down terminal using |)
4. Navigate to the repository
5. Apply the patch using git apply and Shift-Insert to paste the diff into stdin
6. Press Ctrl-D to complete the paste

Sending a revised series using git-send-email

1. Open the original series or the e-mail you wish to reply to
2. Press Ctrl-y to yank the message-ID of the original message (this is now stored on the primary clipboard)
3. Paste this to the --in-reply-to= command line option for git-send-email using Shift-Insert in your terminal.