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Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2011 12:16:39 +0300
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Subject: Re: Filtering out replies to a patch series
From: Amit Kucheria <amit.kucheria@verdurent.com>
To: Pieter Praet <pieter@praet.org>
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On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 9:57 AM, Pieter Praet <pieter@praet.org> wrote:
> On Fri, 1 Apr 2011 11:47:25 +0300, Amit Kucheria <amit.kucheria@verdurent=
.com> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I am wondering how developers on this list handle the case of grabbing
>> a patch series posted to the list and using something like git-am to
>> apply it to their local trees.
>
> See id:"m2vd3p3u78.fsf@kcals.maillard.im"
>
>> Several patches in the series could have replies to them and hence
>> they need to be filtered out.
>>
>> e.g. I use notmuch show --output=3Dmbox thread:000000000000eb4e to get
>> the basic series. But I'd appreciate any tips on filtering out the
>> replies.
>
> Something like this might work:
>
> =A0noreplieskthxbye() {
> =A0 =A0 =A0thread_id=3D${1}
> =A0 =A0 =A0target_dir=3D/tmp/${thread_id}
> =A0 =A0 =A0test -d ${target_dir} && echo "Patch queue dirty. Remove ${tar=
get_dir}" && return 1
> =A0 =A0 =A0mkdir -p ${target_dir}
> =A0 =A0 =A0notmuch show --format=3Dmbox ${thread_id} | git mailsplit -o${=
target_dir}
> =A0 =A0 =A0grep -l "^diff --git" ${target_dir}/* | xargs git am -3
> =A0 =A0 =A0rm -rf ${target_dir} # "Danger, Will Robinson!"
> =A0}
>
> =A0noreplieskthxbye thread:000000000000eb4e
>
> But I'd be suprised beyond belief if there weren't a *sane* way to do
> this. I might also need some coffee first...

I haven't found a 'sane way' yet. Your scripting hack looks like a
good way to start though.