Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@xxxxxx> wrote: > Hi Arif, > > On Tue, 23 Aug 2016, Arif Khokar wrote: > > > On 08/20/2016 03:57 PM, Jakub Narębski wrote: > > > > > But perhaps the problem is current lack of tooling in the opposite > > > direction, namely getting patches from mailing list and applying them > > > to GitHub repo, or Bitbucket, or GitLab. Though with working Git, it > > > is something easier than sending patches via email; it is enough that > > > email client can save email to a file (or better, whole sub-thread to > > > file or files). > > > > Given that public-inbox provides an NNTP interface, couldn't the ARTICLE > > <message-id> NNTP command be used to easily retrieve the messages in a > > given patch series (at least compared to POP or IMAP). Perhaps > > git-send-email could be modified to include the message-id value of each > > patch in the series that it sends to the mailing list and include it in > > the cover letter. I think that makes sense; perhaps an X-Git-Followups: header from send-email which lists the child Message-IDs the same way References: does for ancestors. (perhaps there's already a standardized header for listing children) I thought about allowing a giant MIME message with all the patches attached, too but that won't work for a large patch series due to size limits along various SMTP hops. Compression might make spam filters unhappy, too. > I am no expert in the NNTP protocol (I abandoned News long ago), but if > you go from HTML, you can automate the process without requiring changes > in format-patch. > > > Then a script could be written (i.e., git-download-patch) which could > > parse the cover letter message (specified using its message-id), and > > download all the patches in series, which can then be applied using > > git-am. This would in fact take the email client out of the equation in > > terms of saving patches. w3m -dump -dump_source nntp://<NNTP-server>/<Message-ID> ought to already work for news.gmane.org and news.public-inbox.org The Net::NNTP Perl module is a standard part of the Perl distro for many years, now (along with Net::SMTP), so that would not be a roadblock for implementing a custom downloader distributed with git. > I recently adapted an old script I had to apply an entire patch series > given the GMane link to its cover letter: > > https://github.com/git-for-windows/build-extra/blob/master/apply-from-gmane.sh > > Maybe you find it in you to adapt that to work with public-inbox.org? I would be hesitant to depend too much on public-inbox.org until more mirrors appear. Even then, NNTP is a better-established protocol and a fallback to news.gmane still works. (public-inbox.org is powered by hamsters running on wheels, sometimes I let them rest :) -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html