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Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2021 14:05:40 -0400
From: Konstantin Ryabitsev <konstantin@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Leon Romanovsky <leon@kernel.org>
Cc: ksummit@lists.linux.dev, tools@linux.kernel.org
Subject: backfilling threads with b4 (was: Re: [MAINTAINER SUMMIT] Rethinking
 the acceptance policy for "trivial" patches)
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On Thu, Apr 22, 2021 at 08:56:45PM +0300, Leon Romanovsky wrote:
> >     macro index 4 "<pipe-message>~/work/git/korg/b4/b4.sh mbox -f -o ~/Mail<return>"
> > 
> > You'll need to adjust it to point at where your maildir lives, of course, but
> > that's the general idea. With it in place, you can hit "4" in the index view
> > to get the rest of the thread (without duplicating the messages you already
> > have).
> 
> Konstantin,
> 
> I tried the above and here the obstacles which I encounter.

This is probably better suited for tools@linux.kernel.org (cc'ing
accordingly).

> 1. My emails are stored in Maildir. The mb2md script half-worked but ok
> for the test.
> 2. b4 didn't work if I tried to use lore link from the middle of discussion,
> which is very common pattern to me.
> 3. b4 didn't grab the discussions, so I got the patches, but didn't get and
> won't get any interesting to me responses.

Are you sure you copied the command correctly? 

1. It should automatically recognize when it's pointed at a maildir, so no
   mb2md should be necessary. Are you sure you changed "-o ~/Mail" to be
   pointing at your maildir?
2. It's supposed to grab the message-id from the piped message, so you
   shouldn't need to pass any lore links.
3. Are you sure you're using "b4 mbox" not "b4 am"? The mbox command just
   returns the entire thread.

Please feel free to drop ksummit and others on your reply.

-K