Junio C Hamano <[email protected]> wrote:
> Stefan Beller <[email protected]> writes:
> > * Should the public-inbox offer another link to patches 1-n, without
> > the cover letter? Or should it add instructions:
> >
> > If this is a patch series you can apply it locally as:
> > curl <link> >tmpXXX
> > git am tmpXXX && git am --skip && git am --continue
Currently for web users, I suggest:
curl $URL >tmpXXX
# open tmpXXXX and tag+copy to patchesXXX using MUA of choice:
# (also seems to be what Jeff describes):
mutt -f tmpXXX
git am patchesXXXX
> I do not think it is sensible for "cover-letter" specific
> instructions. However, I do not think it is unreasonable to either
> add another mbox.gz link or replace the behaviour of mbox.gz link so
> that you can grab a mbox that contains "this message and everything
> after it in the thread". That way, I could open the first message,
> see something like this I found in your message:
>
> >> Thread overview: 4+ messages in thread (expand / mbox.gz / Atom feed /
> >> [top])
> >> 2016-08-15 23:06 Jacob Keller [this message]
> >> 2016-08-15 23:07 ` [PATCH v6 1/3] diff.c: remove output_prefix_length
> >> field Jacob Keller
> >> 2016-08-15 23:07 ` [PATCH v6 2/3] graph: add support for --line-prefix on
> >> all graph-aware output Jacob Keller
> >> 2016-08-15 23:07 ` [PATCH v6 3/3] diff: add SUBMODULE_DIFF format to
> >> display submodule diff Jacob Keller
>
> and then go to 1/3 and click that "this and everything that
> follows".
Adding more links might still fall down in cases where
fixup/squash patches are sent for specific patches in a series;
or when a v{N+1} series is posted in-reply-to an existing
series.
Perhaps adding checkbox next to each item might work as a
select-to-include-in-mbox download form. However, I'm already
finding the lack of horizontal space disconcerting.
Maybe the YYYY-MM-DD could be shortened to YYYYMMDD. It would
be closer to the date searching syntax used by mairix, as well
as the search enhancement I started working on earlier today:
https://public-inbox.org/meta/[email protected]/T/
(still will deploy soonish)
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