> Multiple files to herd. When I get an email with five patch attachments, I have five files to copy around instead of one, with long awkward names.
That’s not correct. You can write the email to an mbox file (your MUA lets you do that, right?) and then use `git am` to pull it all into git.
> Why I don’t like it: because the patch series is split into multiple emails, they arrive in my inbox in a random order, and then I have to save them one by one to files, and manually sort those files back into the right order by their subject lines.
The patch series arrives threaded, so your MUA should be able to display them in order. Export them to an mbox file, and then use `git am` again.
There might be ways that someone can send you email in this way and for the patches to be broken such that `git am` won’t work, of course. I take no issue with that part of the argument.
That’s not correct. You can write the email to an mbox file (your MUA lets you do that, right?) and then use `git am` to pull it all into git.
> Why I don’t like it: because the patch series is split into multiple emails, they arrive in my inbox in a random order, and then I have to save them one by one to files, and manually sort those files back into the right order by their subject lines.
The patch series arrives threaded, so your MUA should be able to display them in order. Export them to an mbox file, and then use `git am` again.
There might be ways that someone can send you email in this way and for the patches to be broken such that `git am` won’t work, of course. I take no issue with that part of the argument.