> PRs are public and email patches are receiver's inbox only, right? Not necessarily. For a 'lone wolf' project that might be the case, but some projects have

> PRs are public and email patches are receiver's inbox only, right? Not necessarily. For a 'lone wolf' project that might be the case, but some projects have public mailing-list archives, e.g. https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lightning/ https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lightning/ I think it would be necessary to do some manual copy+pasting, or else use custom scripts/tooling, to turn such mailing-list archive pages into patch files (for git apply) or mbox files (for git am).