~rjarry has two nice scripts for handling patches as a maintainer:

• git-apply-series
• git-push-applied

It would be nice to have these work through :patch. From the top of my head, these are the things that would be needed for such a workflow:

• :patch apply needs on option to gather trailers from non-patch emails and add them to the patches before actually applying
• a way for :patch to pick up local changes if some editing was done (maybe it can already do it?)
• a :patch push with an optional -t [template] to send an email to a configured list. Of course this would somehow need to be able to pass git information to the template.