On Sun, Mar 12, 2023 at 05:41:07AM +0100, Willy Tarreau wrote: > > I suspect that having an option to keep the message ID in the footer (a > bit like the "cherry-picked from" tag but instead "blongs to series") > could possibly help. And when no such info is present we could have > one ID generated per "git am" execution since usually if you apply an > mbox, it constitutes a series (but not always of course, though it's > not difficult to arrange series like this). As I pointed out earlier, some of us are adding the message ID in the footer alrady, using a Link tag. This is even documented already in the Kernel Maintainer's Handbook, so I'm pretty sure it's not just me. :-) https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/maintainer/configure-git.html#creating-commit-links-to-lore-kernel-org This is quite sufficient to extract out the full patch series given a particular patch. The b4 python script does this this; given a single Message-Id, it can find all of the other patches in the series. I won't say that it it's "trivial", but the code already exists, and you can copy and paste it from b4. Or just have your script shell out to "b4 am -o /tmp/scratchdir $MSGID" - Ted
