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From: Konstantin Ryabitsev <konstantin@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Simon Eigeldinger <simon.eigeldinger@gmx.at>
Cc: meta@public-inbox.org
Subject: Re: Converting Public-Inbox archived messages into mbox
Date: Fri, 4 Sep 2020 17:50:00 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200904215000.eu2tta2b7nckycf5@chatter.i7.local> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <22947b1d-4728-30fa-ee96-fbd31496c0e6@gmx.at>

On Fri, Sep 04, 2020 at 10:40:24PM +0200, Simon Eigeldinger wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I know and I guess that has been asked a few times.
> Is it possible to convert a git repo with messages to a mbox file and
> how is that done?
> 
> According to the install guide for Public-Inbox you don't need to
> install the whole server instance but just use git clone or git fetch to
> get the repo.
> But it doesn't state what to do after cloning.

You can try using l2md:
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dborkman/l2md.git

If you don't want to go that route, you can also just do a very blunt 
thing like:

mkdir -p maildir/{new,cur,tmp}
for commit in $(git rev-list master); do:
  git show $commit:m > maildir/new/$commit
done
mutt -f maildir

-K

      reply	other threads:[~2020-09-04 21:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-09-04 20:40 Converting Public-Inbox archived messages into mbox Simon Eigeldinger
2020-09-04 21:50 ` Konstantin Ryabitsev [this message]

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