Hi, all: GitGitGadget is great, and I'm looking forward to adapting it to Linux Kernel's needs. There is one area where I think the situation can be further improved, and that's if the process of converting a pull request into a patch series were completely 100% reversible. As of right now, the following data is permanently lost from commits as they are converted into patches: - parent/tree hashes - author/committer information - cryptographic attestation (gpgsig) There is an existing body of work done by Vegard Nossum [1] that makes it possible to fully reconstruct a git commit from an email message, and I hope that it can make its way into official upstream. If that were to happen, it would mean that converting from a pull request into a patch series would become a lossless operation and tools like GitGitGadget would be able to preserve full cryptographic attestation of commits. Vegard, if there is interest in getting this work into upstream, are you in a position to continue your work on it? Best regards, -K [1]: https://lore.kernel.org/git/20191022114518.32055-1-vegard.nossum@xxxxxxxxxx/#t
