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From: Shreyansh Paliwal <shreyanshpaliwalcmsmn@gmail•com>
To: git@vger•kernel.org
Subject: [RFC] git am: apply patches directly via message id
Date: Thu, 19 Mar 2026 14:53:36 +0530	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260319092441.1283001-1-shreyanshpaliwalcmsmn@gmail.com> (raw)

Hi,

Currently, git am supports applying patches through several methods, mbox
files, .patch files, maildir directories etc. However, all of these require
the user to first obtain the patch file locally before applying it. I was
thinking that it would be a lot more convinient to directly apply patches
by by their message id of emails, without any manual downloading by the
help of a new option '--fetch-mid'. It would something be like,

        git am --fetch-mid "foo1@bar" "foo2@bar"

We can fetch the patch/es from the standard url format like,

        `https://lore.kernel.org/git/<message-id>/raw`

We can also make the base URL configurable via a new config key
am.publicInboxUrl, defaulting to https://lore.kernel.org, so that users on
private setups can point it at their own public-inbox instance. The fetched
content is already in mbox format, so the patch application logic won't
need any change. A further addition to this can be to just provide the
message id of the cover letter of patch and automatically it would fetch
all the patches.

Does this sound like a useful feature to add or maybe any kind of indirect
implementation is already there and I am missing anything. Let me know what
are your thoughts on this.

Best,
Shreyansh

next             reply	other threads:[~2026-03-19  9:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-03-19  9:23 Shreyansh Paliwal [this message]
2026-03-19 13:43 ` [RFC] git am: apply patches directly via message id Junio C Hamano
2026-03-19 15:21   ` Shreyansh Paliwal
2026-03-19 15:35     ` Junio C Hamano
2026-03-19 15:45       ` Shreyansh Paliwal

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