Re: [PATCH RESEND] subtree: force merge commit

From: Johannes Altmanninger <aclopte@gmail.com>
Date: Feb 1, 2022, 19:53 UTC
Message-ID: <20220201195325.e5u6zrxabbszzlji@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <xmqqtudics32.fsf@gitster.g>

On Tue, Feb 01, 2022 at 11:19:45AM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote:

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> Johannes Altmanninger <aclopte@gmail.com> writes:
> 
> > BTW is there a good way to tell "git send-email --in-reply-to"
> > to prefill "To:" and "Cc:" based on the message I'm replying to?
> 
> I do not think there is, and I do not think it is readily feasible.
> Given a message ID, how would you figure out these two values?
> Hardcode the URL of mailing list archive and the rules to find these
> values given a message ID?  What if you have a local mail archive
> that you'd rather use instead of going to the public internet?

The "b4" tool accepts message IDs and allows to configure how to look up message contents. This is the default:

	[b4]
	# Where to look up threads by message id
	midmask = https://lore.kernel.org/r/%s

b4 has some powerful features but I think I just want something that reads an email on stdin and outputs the appropriate "send-email --in-reply-to" command. I'll probably parse the mail headers myself.