From: Shreyansh Paliwal <shreyanshpaliwalcmsmn@gmail•com>
To: git@vger•kernel.org
Cc: gitster@pobox•com
Subject: Re: [RFC] git am: apply patches directly via message id
Date: Thu, 19 Mar 2026 21:15:24 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260319154554.1328074-1-shreyanshpaliwalcmsmn@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <xmqqjyv7n872.fsf@gitster.g>
> Shreyansh Paliwal <shreyanshpaliwalcmsmn@gmail•com> writes:
>
> >> Sounds a lot like "b4 am -o-" piped to "git am" to me.
> >
> > I see. Though I think b4 is an external library, and I am reckoning that
> > this functionality is used commonly so would it make sense to add this
> > natively in git am ? or it is fine using b4 for this.
>
> But lore (and the way it takes the message-ID and returns not just a
> single message but a mbox with all patches in a complete series) is
> very specific external dependency. It does not belong to "git am",
> whose only purpose is to accept a mailbox with bunch of patches (and
> we do not care how you downloaded the mailbox) and create commits
> out of them. Interacting with lore and downloading patches from it
> is what "b4" does and it does it well.
Hmm. That makes sense. Thanks.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-03-19 15:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-03-19 9:23 [RFC] git am: apply patches directly via message id Shreyansh Paliwal
2026-03-19 13:43 ` 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 [this message]
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