Johannes SchindelinHi team,
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.
This script (I call it lookup-commit.sh) needs to be dropped into a *bare* clone of http://public-inbox.org/git, and called with its absolute or relative path from a git.git worktree, e.g.
~/public-inbox-git.git/lookup-commit.sh \ fea16b47b603e7e4fa7fca198bd49229c0e5da3d
This will take a while initially, or when the `master` branch of the public-inbox mirror was updated, as it will generate two files with plain-text mappings.
In its default mode, it will print the Message-ID of the mail (if found).
With --open, it opens the mail in a browser (macOS support is missing, mainly because I cannot test: just add an `open` alternative to `xdg-open`).
With --reply, it puts the mail into the `from-public-inbox` folder of a maildir-formatted ~/Mail/, so it is pretty specific to my setup here.
Note: the way mails are matched is by timestamp. In practice, this works amazingly often (although not always, I reported findings short after GitMerge 2017). My plan was to work on this when/as needed.
Note also: the script is very much in a 'works-for-me' state, and I could imagine that others might want to modify it to their needs. I would be delighted if somebody would take custody of it (as in: start a repository on GitHub, adding a README.md, adding a config setting to point to the location of the public-inbox mirror without having to copy the script, adding an option to install an alias to run the script, etc).
And now, without further ado, here it is, the script, in its current glory:
-- snipsnap -- #!/bin/sh
# This is a very simple helper to assist with finding the mail (if any) # corresponding to a given commit in git.git.
die () {
echo "$*" >&2
exit 1
}mode=print while case "$1" in --open) mode=open;; --reply) mode=reply;; -*) die "Unknown option: $1";; *) break;; esac; do shift; done
test $# = 1 || die "Usage: $0 ( [--open] | [--reply] ) <commit>"
test reply != $mode || test -d "$HOME/Mail" || die "Need $HOME/Mail to reply"
commit="$1" tae="$(git show -s --format='%at %an <%ae>' "$1")" || die "Could not get Timestamp/Author/Email triplet from $1"
# We try to match the timestamp first; the author name and author email are # not as reliable: they might have been overridden via a "From:" line in the # mail's body timestamp=${tae%% *}
cd "$(dirname "$0")" || die "Could not cd to the public-inbox directory"
git rev-parse --quiet --verify \ b60d038730d2c2bb8ab2b48c117db917ad529cf7 >/dev/null 2>&1 || die "Not a public-inbox directory: $(pwd)"
head="$(git rev-parse --verify master)" || die "Could not determine tip of master"
prevhead= test ! -f map.latest-rev || prevhead="$(cat map.latest-rev)"
if test $head != "$prevhead"
then
range=${prevhead:+$prevhead..}$head
echo "Inserting records for $range" >&2
git log --format="%at %h %an <%ae>" $range >map.txt.add ||
die "Could not enumerate $range"cat map.txt map.txt.add 2>/dev/null | sort -n >map.txt.new && mv -f map.txt.new map.txt || die "Could not insert new records"
echo $head >map.latest-rev fi
lines="$(grep "^$timestamp " <map.txt)" if test 1 != $(echo "$lines" | wc -l) then test -n "$lines" || die "No records found for timestamp $timestamp"
echo "Multiple records found:"
for h in $(echo "$lines" | cut -d ' ' -f 2) do git show -s --format="%nOn %ad, %an <%ae> sent" $h git show $h | sed -n -e 's/^+Message-Id: <\(.*\)>/\1/ip' \ -e 's/^+Subject: //ip' done
exit 1 fi
# We found exactly one record: print the message ID h=${lines#$timestamp } h=${h%% *} messageid="$(git show $h | sed -n 's/^+Message-Id: <\(.*\)>/\1/ip')" || die "Could not determine Message-Id from $h"
case $mode in print) echo $messageid;; open) url=https://public-inbox.org/git/$messageid case "$(uname -s)" in Linux) xdg-open "$url";; MINGW*|MSYS*) start "$url";; *) die "Need to learn how to open URLs on $(uname -s)";; esac ;; reply) mkdir -p "$HOME/Mail/from-public-inbox/new" && mkdir -p "$HOME/Mail/from-public-inbox/cur" && mkdir -p "$HOME/Mail/from-public-inbox/tmp" || die "Could not set up mail folder 'from-public-inbox'"
path=$(git diff --name-only $h^!) && mail="$(printf "%s_%09d.%s:2," $(date +%s.%N) $$ $(hostname -f))" && git show $h:$path >"$HOME/Mail/from-public-inbox/new/$mail" || die "Could not write mail" ;; *) die "Unhandled mode: $mode" ;; esac
