Hi Arif,

On Tue, 23 Aug 2016, Arif Khokar wrote:

> On 08/20/2016 03:57 PM, Jakub Narębski wrote:
> 
> > But perhaps the problem is current lack of tooling in the opposite
> > direction, namely getting patches from mailing list and applying them
> > to GitHub repo, or Bitbucket, or GitLab.  Though with working Git, it
> > is something easier than sending patches via email; it is enough that
> > email client can save email to a file (or better, whole sub-thread to
> > file or files).
> 
> Given that public-inbox provides an NNTP interface, couldn't the ARTICLE
> <message-id> NNTP command be used to easily retrieve the messages in a
> given patch series (at least compared to POP or IMAP).  Perhaps
> git-send-email could be modified to include the message-id value of each
> patch in the series that it sends to the mailing list and include it in
> the cover letter.

I am no expert in the NNTP protocol (I abandoned News long ago), but if
you go from HTML, you can automate the process without requiring changes
in format-patch.

> Then a script could be written (i.e., git-download-patch) which could
> parse the cover letter message (specified using its message-id), and
> download all the patches in series, which can then be applied using
> git-am.  This would in fact take the email client out of the equation in
> terms of saving patches.

I recently adapted an old script I had to apply an entire patch series
given the GMane link to its cover letter:

https://github.com/git-for-windows/build-extra/blob/master/apply-from-gmane.sh

Maybe you find it in you to adapt that to work with public-inbox.org?

Ciao,
Johannes