On Fri, Feb 14, 2020 at 11:30:42AM -0800, Kevin Hilman wrote: > Konstantin Ryabitsev <konstantin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > > > I'd like your opinion on this quick helper script I wrote that uses any > > message-id to grab a full thread from lore.kernel.org and save it as a > > mbox file. > > This is very useful, thank you! > > One question/request: Is there a way for it to only grab a subset of a > series? e.g. Some series contain patches that might end up going > through a couple different trees (e.g. DT patches typically take a > separate path than drivers) so as a maintainer for one of the > subsystems, I might want to only get a subset of the series into an > mbox, not the whole thing. > > IOW, Right now even if I pass a msgid from the middle of the series, it > finds the whole series (which is cool!), but what if I want to apply > just that single patch? Or even better, I might want to only apply > patches 3-5 and 9 from a 10-patch series. > > Is this something do-able? I think for such cases it's easy enough to just edit the .mbx file to remove the patches you're not interested in. When you use the '-a' flag, the content is de-mimefied to remove various mta-transmission cruft like quoted-printable/base64 encodings, etc -- making it easy to identify and remove content that is not relevant. -K
