On 2021-04-28 at 07:59:27, Eric Wong wrote: > "brian m. carlson" wrote: > > I have tooling to automatically generate the proper range for > > range-diffs in cover letters, but that tooling requires some sort of > > manual timestamp, which means I need to go search for my previous series > > to find the date and generate the range diff, or if I'm in a rush, I > > just have to omit it. This can take some time, having to guess what I > > named the cover letter the last time and search for it in a mailbox with > > a 6-digit quantity of mails[0]. > > > > In general, I have trouble keeping track of the patch mails I've sent. > > I do definitely need to refer to them later, but I don't generally keep > > them around on my system since they tend to duplicate my repository, so > > I end up needing to find them in my mailbox, which as mentioned, is > > slow and error prone. > > Along the lines of what Ted said about Fcc, I've always Bcc-ed > myself on every message I send to verify deliverability and > check/train my spam filter. > > What search tool do you use? mairix can handle the 6-digit > quantity of the git list fairly well. The following finds all > threads with "sandals" in From/To/Cc: > > mairix -t a:sandals d:YYYYMMDD-YYYYMMDD I simply use mutt to read my mailbox and search. Nothing fancy. I should point out that it's not local; it's on a Dovecot IMAP server located on a VPS in New York City. -- brian m. carlson (he/him or they/them) Houston, Texas, US