# Email workflows

**URL:** <https://discourse.pijul.org/t/email-workflows/272>\
**Category:** Question\
**Created:** [January 27, 2019, 8:38am UTC](https://discourse.pijul.org/t/email-workflows/272 "2019-01-27T08:38:56Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![atpotts](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex031/user_avatar/discourse.pijul.org/atpotts/32/138_2.png) [@atpotts](https://discourse.pijul.org/u/atpotts)\
**Post date:** [January 27, 2019, 8:38am UTC](https://discourse.pijul.org/t/email-workflows/272/1 "2019-01-27T08:38:57Z")

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Git has a nice workflow (`git send-email`) in which you can send patches in human readable form over a mailing list, making it easy for people to comment by simply replying to the patches.

This could be even nicer for a patch based vcs, in which there is no chance of conflicts when you next pull from the repository after someone has applied your patches.

Is this workflow currently possible or likely to be possible in pijul? My scan of the manuals suggests patches can currently only be distributed in binary form?

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**Author:** ![lthms](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex031/user_avatar/discourse.pijul.org/lthms/32/124_2.png) [@lthms](https://discourse.pijul.org/u/lthms)\
**Post date:** [January 28, 2019, 1:55pm UTC](https://discourse.pijul.org/t/email-workflows/272/2 "2019-01-28T13:55:11Z")

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Your hypothesis is right. Currently, `pijul` is storing its patches in a binary format, and there is no “equivalent” plain representation available. As far as I understood from my discussions with @pmeunier, because `pijul` is heavily relying on lines ID to represent its patch, having a readable plain representation that is as meaningful and powerfull as binary’s patches remains non-trivial, unfortunately.

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**Author:** ![pmeunier](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex031/user_avatar/discourse.pijul.org/pmeunier/32/4_2.png) [@pmeunier](https://discourse.pijul.org/u/pmeunier)\
**Post date:** [February 23, 2019, 11:22pm UTC](https://discourse.pijul.org/t/email-workflows/272/3 "2019-02-23T23:22:33Z")

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I’d like to do it soon, actually, I can explain potential text formats to someone who likes to write parsers (I do like to write parsers, but I have very little time at the moment).

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**Author:** ![omasanori](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex031/user_avatar/discourse.pijul.org/omasanori/32/449_2.png) [@omasanori](https://discourse.pijul.org/u/omasanori)\
**Post date:** [March 24, 2022, 3:38am UTC](https://discourse.pijul.org/t/email-workflows/272/4 "2022-03-24T03:38:33Z")

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Sorry for reviving old thread, but I would like to know the status of email-based workflow. Is it abandoned?