Provide an option to apply a patch without committing

[malcomio]

As a module maintainer, it would be useful to be able to apply a patch locally, without creating a separate branch and committing it, e.g. in preparation for committing the change to the main branch.

[mglaman]

This makes sense, as you currently can't merge the applied branch.

Would it make sense to add options to issue:apply or something like maintainer:commit (apply the patch, and use the Drupal.org commit message per #74)?

So we could do:

• issue:apply --direct which applies the issue directly to the current branch and a separate command to get the Drupal.org git command

OR

• maintainer:commit like issue:apply, but it applies the patch to the current branch and uses the Drupal.org git command

[malcomio]

I was thinking it should be options on issue:apply - I almost always want to test the patch locally before committing

[hansfn]

I support issue:apply --direct. I would still recommend maintainers to use the normal issue:apply command. After checking that everything is fine, it's just to merge the issue branch - or delete it if not.

Anyway, drupalorg-cli is all about convenience ;-)