Re: Working with public-inbox.org [Was: [PATCH] rev-parse: respect core.hooksPath in --git-path]

[Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>]

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Hi Arif,

On Wed, 24 Aug 2016, Johannes Schindelin wrote:

> On Tue, 23 Aug 2016, Arif Khokar wrote:
> 
> > On 08/20/2016 03:57 PM, Jakub Narębski wrote:
> > 
> > > But perhaps the problem is current lack of tooling in the opposite
> > > direction, namely getting patches from mailing list and applying
> > > them to GitHub repo, or Bitbucket, or GitLab.  Though with working
> > > Git, it is something easier than sending patches via email; it is
> > > enough that email client can save email to a file (or better, whole
> > > sub-thread to file or files).
> > 
> > Given that public-inbox provides an NNTP interface, couldn't the
> > ARTICLE <message-id> NNTP command be used to easily retrieve the
> > messages in a given patch series (at least compared to POP or IMAP).
> > Perhaps git-send-email could be modified to include the message-id
> > value of each patch in the series that it sends to the mailing list
> > and include it in the cover letter.
> 
> I am no expert in the NNTP protocol (I abandoned News long ago), but if
> you go from HTML, you can automate the process without requiring changes
> in format-patch.
> 
> > Then a script could be written (i.e., git-download-patch) which could
> > parse the cover letter message (specified using its message-id), and
> > download all the patches in series, which can then be applied using
> > git-am.  This would in fact take the email client out of the equation
> > in terms of saving patches.
> 
> I recently adapted an old script I had to apply an entire patch series
> given the GMane link to its cover letter:
> 
> https://github.com/git-for-windows/build-extra/blob/master/apply-from-gmane.sh
> 
> Maybe you find it in you to adapt that to work with public-inbox.org?

Oh well. That would have been too easy a task, right?

As it happens, I needed this functionality myself (when reworking my
git-path-in-subdir patch to include Mike Rappazzo's previous patch series
that tried to fix the same bug).

I copy-edited the script to work with public-inbox.org, it accepts a
Message-ID or URL or GMane URL and will try to apply the patch (or patch
series) on top of the current revision:

https://github.com/git-for-windows/build-extra/blob/2268850552c7/apply-from-public-inbox.sh

Ciao,
Johannes