Filtering out replies to a patch series

[Amit Kucheria]

On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 9:57 AM, Pieter Praet <pieter at praet.org> wrote:
> On Fri, 1 Apr 2011 11:47:25 +0300, Amit Kucheria <amit.kucheria at 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 at 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=mbox thread:000000000000eb4e to get
>> the basic series. But I'd appreciate any tips on filtering out the
>> replies.
>
> Something like this might work:
>
>  noreplieskthxbye() {
>      thread_id=${1}
>      target_dir=/tmp/${thread_id}
>      test -d ${target_dir} && echo "Patch queue dirty. Remove ${target_dir}" && return 1
>      mkdir -p ${target_dir}
>      notmuch show --format=mbox ${thread_id} | git mailsplit -o${target_dir}
>      grep -l "^diff --git" ${target_dir}/* | xargs git am -3
>      rm -rf ${target_dir} # "Danger, Will Robinson!"
>  }
>
>  noreplieskthxbye 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.