Re: Applying patches from mailing list

"Kevin J. McCarthy" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.mail.mutt.devel
Message-ID <aZF00ECC2rcKp3VS@qinghai>
On Sat, Feb 14, 2026 at 09:06:06AM +0100, Rene Kita wrote:
>On Sat, Feb 14, 2026 at 11:35:03AM +0800, Kevin J. McCarthy wrote:
>> I just now almost committed a patch from Alex with the author set to
>> "Alejandro Colomar via Mutt-dev <[email protected]>".  Fortunately I noticed
>> at the last moment and manually reset the author.  However, this is quite a
>> pain.
>
>You could use git's applypatch-msg hook for this. I'm not too familiar
>with it, but it looks like you can either rewrite the author or at least
>stop the commit if it contains 'via Mutt-dev'.

Thanks Rene.  I poked for a bit, but in the end I scripted around it 
with some macros in mutt.

A little hacky but it seems to work!

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Kevin J. McCarthy
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