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Re:Mailing lists vs Github by deckar01 on Tuesday June 05, 2018 @10:24AM (#17237864)
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 looks interesting

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Re:Mailing lists vs Github by jwilk on Tuesday June 05, 2018 @11:51AM (#17238827)
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. :-/

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Re:Mailing lists vs Github by deckar01 on Tuesday June 05, 2018 @12:39PM (#17239408)
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.
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Re:Mailing lists vs Github by gkya on Tuesday June 05, 2018 @10:51AM (#17238174)
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).
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