[ovs-dev] [PATCH] faq: Add Q&A for applying patches from email.

[Kevin Traynor]

On 26/03/2019 16:34, Ben Pfaff wrote:
> +   Another way to apply emailed patches is to use the ``pwclient`` program,
> +   which can obtain patches from patchwork and apply them directly.  Download
> +   ``pwclient`` at https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/project/openvswitch/.  You
> +   probably want to set up a ``.pwclientrc`` that looks something like this::
> +
> +     [options]
> +     default=openvswitch
> +     signoff=true
> +
> +     [openvswitch]
> +     url=https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/xmlrpc/
> +
> +   After you install ``pwclient``, you can apply a patch from patchwork with
> +   ``pwclient git-am #``, where # is the patch's number.  (This fails with
> +   certain patches that contain form-feeds, due to a limitation of the protocol
> +   underlying ``pwclient``.)

git-pw is a nice alternative to pwclient too. I sent a patch adding
details about it
https://mail.openvswitch.org/pipermail/ovs-dev/2019-March/357654.html