Git Receive Mail
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git-receive-mail is a command-line tool that helps apply patches received by email to a Git repository. In workflows like the Linux kernel's, where patches sent with git send-email are exchanged over mailing lists, its goal is to reduce the manual work on the receiving side of pulling patches out of the mailbox and applying them with git am. It is used together with the terminal email client Himalaya and is aimed at developers who prefer email-based collaboration over pull requests on a forge.
git-receive-mail: The People's Git Email Patch Tool