Hi Alex, On Tue, 2025-04-01 at 12:18 +0200, Alejandro Colomar wrote: > On Tue, Apr 01, 2025 at 12:11:53PM +0200, Mark Wielaard wrote: > > On Mon, Mar 31, 2025 at 05:35:40PM +0200, Alejandro Colomar via Overseers > > wrote: > > > The public inbox of gcc@ doesn't replace the archive, but rather > > > complement it. That is, there exit both the archive and the public > > > inbox. I expect the same would be possible here. > > > > > > (On the other hand, it would be interesting to learn how one can > > > dowload mbox from a public inbox, because in vger.kernel.org we only > > > have a public inbox.) > > > > At least on inbox.sourceware.org you can download the result of any > > search as mbox. And search is fairly powerful. See e.g. > > https://inbox.sourceware.org/libc-alpha/_/text/help/ > > > > So for example to get all message from the last week you'll do: > > https://inbox.sourceware.org/libc-alpha/?q=d%3Alast.week.. And then > > at the top you can download the result as mbox (with or without full > > message threads). > > Thanks! That's useful. > > > > > Also if you want to download a whole message thread containing a > > specific message-id you can fetch > > https://inbox.sourceware.org/libc-alpha/<Message-ID>/t.mbox.gz > > Is it possible to download the entire history? I once cloned a git > repository for a public-inbox, thinking that it would look like a > maildir or an mbox, but it looks like every mail removes the previous > one (or something weird).
Yes, it is one message per commit, see the GIT TREE LAYOUT in https://public-inbox.org/public-inbox-v2-format.html If you want to get really fancy you can use lei https://public-inbox.org/lei-overview.html Or the Emacs tools and glue for working with public-inbox archives piem https://git.kyleam.com/piem/tree/README Cheers, Mark
