Konstantin Ryabitsev <konstantin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > 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. Yes, that was my first "solution", but it's not very easy to automate. :) If there needs to be a manual step, I prefer 'git am --interactive'. Anyways, this tool is really great and it's already replacing some of my homebrew scripts. Thanks, Kevin
