Re: New version of lore available for preview

[Lee Jones <lee.jones@linaro.org>]

On Thu, 09 Sep 2021, Peter Zijlstra wrote:

> On Thu, Sep 09, 2021 at 02:32:25PM +0100, Lee Jones wrote:
> > Does b4 provide this functionality too, or do I have to script around
> > it?  How have other's chosen to automatically apply the downloaded
> > mboxes?
> 
> My .muttrc has:
> 
> macro index B "<tag-prefix><pipe-entry>formail -ds | b4 am -slt -m - -o - | formail -s ~/mutt/mutt-pipe.sh<enter><untag-pattern>~T<enter>"
> 
> (which relies on that same muttrc having: set pipe_split=no)
> 
> which allows me to tag a (partial) thread using ESC-t (or otherwise) and
> apply the resulting lot (with folding of tags and adding signature and
> all the goodness) to my quilt series (as done by my mutt-pipe.sh
> script).
> 
> The initial "formail -ds" is required because mutt pipe output isn't
> exactly the mbox format b4 expects and formail basically reformats it,
> it's mbox in mbox out. Then b4 takes the mbox, folds tags and generates
> a reduced mbox with only patches; formail then splits it and my old and
> trusty mutt-pipe.sh frobs it into quilt one at a time.

This might well be handy.

I'll probably look into this when I have a need i.e. when I come
across my first multi-patch merge where there has been subsequent
reviews (trailers) added to the thread.

Thanks.

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