Fetching patches from lore.kernel.org

al3x · May 17, 2024, 4:24pm

I was looking for a way to fetch a patch series from lore.kernel.org. public-inbox (which lore.kernel.org uses for their mail archive) does support downloading threads in a mbox file, but the order of messages in the thread may differ from the order of the patches in the series. Fortunately b4 am can be used to generate a sorted patch from the mbox file. Here’s an example of using it with fetchpatch:

gist.github.com

https://gist.github.com/al3xtjames/a9aff722b7ddf8c79d6ce4ca85c11eaa

tdx-kernel.nix

{ lib, pkgs, ... }:

let
  decodeMbox = pkgs.writeShellScript "decodeMbox" ''
    # The lore.kernel.org mailing list uses public-inbox, which supports
    # downloading threads as a gzip-compressed mbox file (see the "mbox.gz" link
    # next to "Thread overview"). This can be used to download a patch series in
    # a single file. However, public-inbox may not sort the messages in the
    # thread [1], which may break application of the patches. b4 am [2] can be
    # used to sort patches in the mbox file and produce a patch that can be

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