Re: commit -> public-inbox link helper

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Apr 20, 2018, 19:40 UTC
Message-ID: <nycvar.QRO.7.76.6.1804202137310.4241@ZVAVAG-6OXH6DA.rhebcr.pbec.zvpebfbsg.pbz>
In-Reply-To: <20180420083934.GA696@dcvr>

Hi Eric,

On Fri, 20 Apr 2018, Eric Wong wrote:

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> Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> wrote:
> > 
> > I found myself in dear need to quickly look up mails in the
> > public-inbox mail archive corresponding to any given commit in
> > git.git. Some time ago, I wrote a shell script to help me with that,
> > and I found myself using it a couple of times, so I think it might be
> > useful for others, too.
> 
> Hello, I think you can dump all the info you need more quickly
> without cloning 1G of data by dumping NNTP OVER(view)
> information instead.

That might be true for the current state of affairs.

However, there *are* cases (I think I even linked to my original mail with my post-GitMerge 2017 analysis) where the triplet Date/Author/Email is not enough, where even some patch series have the identical triplet for every single patch.

Even if I did not hit those cases yet, and therefore did not implement that part, I needed to keep the door open for that. So I need a clone.

Ciao, Dscho