Re: Saving patches from this list

From: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Date: Dec 12, 2008, 15:14 UTC
Message-ID: <20081212151419.GL32487@spearce.org>
In-Reply-To: <e2b179460812120107t74a4a8e3y1654233fe2870ac7@mail.gmail.com>

Mike Ralphson <mike.ralphson@gmail.com> wrote:

> 2008/12/12 Stefan Näwe <stefan.naewe+git@gmail.com>
> > > Stefan Näwe schrieb:
> > > > What's the best way to get patches sent to this list in a form suitable
> > > > for 'git am' without subscribing to this list ?

If you find the article on the web with gmane, add '/raw' onto the end of direct link URL. E.g. to get:

  http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/102874

use:

  curl http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/102874/raw | git am

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> Junio's blog[1] shows he's looking at patchwork. Personally I think it
> would be fantastic to have a public patchwork server available. It
> might avoid the chicken and egg problem in that it's currently easier
> (for some people) to get hold of a patch to play with / review only
> after it's accepted.

One of the things I want to do with Gerrit 2 is teach it to read a mailing list and convert patches it receives into temporary branches that can be fetched over git://, and also create records in its web database so reviews can be done on the web interface, then let it CC the list back with a proper In-Reply-To when comments are posted on the web to a change it received by email.

IOW, I want to make Gerrit 2 useful to the git community to monitor patch state without changing our current email based workflow. But I'm still a good two or three months from being able to do that. Android's workflow is higher priority to me right now.

-- 
Shawn.