> PS. I know that attaching the output of "git format-patch" to a message > like this isn't the "git way". (That is, you won't get the right result > by simply piping this message to "git am".) But I really wish it > were. It seems I often write code in response to an email message and I > often want to reply to that *message* and incidentally provide a > patch. The git way, with the commit message in the subject and the first > part of the body seems backwards to me, (as far as the conversation is > concerned). How about attaching a message/rfc822 part which contains the patch?