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Has a project ever stored their mailing list archive in their git repo as text files? It would be nice if I could pull down the latest issues and grep them inst

Has a project ever stored their mailing list archive in their git repo as text files? It would be nice if I could pull down the latest issues and grep them instead of relying on a remote database with crippled search functionality. I like Git GUIs, but I would rather run them locally and use flat files instead of databases. I use git-cola for visualizing the git DAG locally, it would be nice to do the same for issue and patch threads. Edit: https://github.com/dspinellis/git-issue https://github.com/dspinellis/git-issue looks interesting

gkya 8y ago
You can always use an ftp client or rsync to fetch mailing lists as a bunch of mboxes, and use a program like notmuch or mairix to search them very fast (not sure if notmuch supports mbox though, but I've used mairix in the past and it's nice).
jwilk 8y ago
https://public-inbox.org/hosted.html https://public-inbox.org/hosted.html To be frank, I don't think this it's practical, except for small projects. I tried to clone git's mailing list archive, but I ran out of memory. :-/
- deckar01 8y ago
  If you just pull the current version and not the full history it isn't that bad (769.04 MiB). $ git clone https://public-inbox.org/git/ --depth=1 Cloning into 'git'... remote: Enumerating objects: 349282, done. remote: Counting objects: 100% (349282/349282), done. remote: Compressing objects: 100% (324048/324048), done. remote: Total 349282 (delta 25234), reused 348128 (delta 25234) Receiving objects: 100% (349282/349282), 769.04 MiB | 8.26 MiB/s, done. Resolving deltas: 100% (25234/25234), done. Checking out files: 100% (349024/349024), done.
dredmorbius 8y ago
There's mh: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MH_Message_Handling_System https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MH_Message_Handling_System https://www.cs.indiana.edu/docproject/mail/mh.html https://www.cs.indiana.edu/docproject/mail/mh.html

gkya 8y ago

You can always use an ftp client or rsync to fetch mailing lists as a bunch of mboxes, and use a program like notmuch or mairix to search them very fast (not sure if notmuch supports mbox though, but I've used mairix in the past and it's nice).

jwilk 8y ago

https://public-inbox.org/hosted.html https://public-inbox.org/hosted.html To be frank, I don't think this it's practical, except for small projects. I tried to clone git's mailing list archive, but I ran out of memory. :-/

deckar01 8y ago
If you just pull the current version and not the full history it isn't that bad (769.04 MiB). $ git clone https://public-inbox.org/git/ --depth=1 Cloning into 'git'... remote: Enumerating objects: 349282, done. remote: Counting objects: 100% (349282/349282), done. remote: Compressing objects: 100% (324048/324048), done. remote: Total 349282 (delta 25234), reused 348128 (delta 25234) Receiving objects: 100% (349282/349282), 769.04 MiB | 8.26 MiB/s, done. Resolving deltas: 100% (25234/25234), done. Checking out files: 100% (349024/349024), done.

dredmorbius 8y ago

There's mh: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MH_Message_Handling_System https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MH_Message_Handling_System https://www.cs.indiana.edu/docproject/mail/mh.html https://www.cs.indiana.edu/docproject/mail/mh.html