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

Hi Arif,

On Wed, 24 Aug 2016, Johannes Schindelin wrote:

On Tue, 23 Aug 2016, Arif Khokar wrote:

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On 08/20/2016 03:57 PM, Jakub Narębski wrote:

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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.

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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