RFC: Access patch by message-ID

[Stephen Finucane]

On Tue, 2018-05-29 at 12:37 +1000, Daniel Axtens wrote:
> Konstantin Ryabitsev <konstantin at linuxfoundation.org> writes:
> 
> > Hello, all:
> > 
> > Seems like it would be easy to implement a way to access a patch by
> > Message-ID, but there is no such option currently. I would very much
> > like to have something like that, which would allow us to link from a
> > public-inbox archive directly to the patch within patchwork, e.g.:
> > 
> > https://patchwork.kernel.org/mid/foobarbaz-message-id@gmail.com
> > ->
> > https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/12345/
> > 
> 
> This sounds good to me. You'd also have to specify a project, because we
> allow the same MID to be present in multiple projects. I hope that won't
> be too much of a problem?
> 
> We can look at this once 2.1 is released.
> 
> Regards,
> Daniel

Indeed. We discussed as much at [1]. Happy to see patches for this in
2.2.

Stephen

[1] https://github.com/getpatchwork/patchwork/issues/106

> > I recall doing that at some point at lkml.kernel.org using this SQL query:
> > 
> > SELECT id FROM patchwork_patch WHERE msgid=?
> > 
> > So, I imagine it would be 3 lines in patchwork to support this feature. :)
> > 
> > Best,
> > -- 
> > Konstantin Ryabitsev
> > Director, IT Infrastructure Security
> > The Linux Foundation
> > 
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