On Fri, Feb 14, 2020 at 1:53 PM Konstantin Ryabitsev <konstantin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > 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. It may be easy enough unless you have something like this series: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/cover.1582361737.git.mchehab+huawei@xxxxxxxxxx/ It backtraces if you give it patch 2 msgid: 83c5df4acbbe0fa55a1d58d4c4a435b51cd2a7ad.1582361737.git.mchehab+huawei@xxxxxxxxxx Presumably because patch 2 and and the cover letter aren't on the same list? Arguably, that's bad practice, but it's quite common to only have 1 or a few patches of the whole series. If you start with the cover letter, then it can find everything. Also, it didn't pick up 2 out of 3 Acked/Reviewed-by tags: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-doc/CAHLCerP_UW-6CdaOziHTY01cD_6Ou4h0Jj6mOJKj60P4GL9H=w@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx/ https://lore.kernel.org/linux-doc/41551c09-5443-4980-9c6f-6bc7f48aa356@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/ Rob
