Re: generating format-patch options from an e-mail

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Dec 26, 2012, 20:35 UTC
Message-ID: <7vbodgo8kv.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <20121226200623.GA29446@simaj.xs4all.nl>

Simon Oosthoek <s.oosthoek@xs4all.nl> writes:

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> Hi all
>
> I've been very frustrated by the process to setup a commandline for git format-patch, to include everyone in the cc list and reply to the right message-id.
>
> In my frustration I created a perl script to generate the options from a saved e-mail, I realise that it may be non-general and perhaps it could be written better using a module which understands e-mails, but well, it worked for me ;-)
>
> Anyway, I could imagine this as optional flag of git format-patch, so you could say:
> $ git format-patch -s --in-reply-to-email <mboxfile> a7fe7de8
>
> But I'll save that as an exercise for the reader (or the future)

I think a much more general approach would be to turn your script into "get-msg-id" script and use it like so:

  $ git format-patch --in-reply-to $(get-msg-id <mboxfile>) a7fe7de8

Then you can reuse that script in a context outside format-patch, whereever you need the message-id in a single message in the mailbox.