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A neat trick that could come in real handy at times would be to teach git range-diff
to compare a local branch to a patch series that is provided as an mbox, e.g. to use git range-diff
to see
whether a given patch series on the mailing list has made it into git.git's pu
branch yet.
We could introduce range-diff mbox:<file> A..B
for that, for example.
This would still require some scripting to e.g. pull down the mbox files of a patch series from https://public-inbox.org/git.
But it would solve the problem where current range-diff
requires local branches, and therefore the user would have to find a commit where the patch series actually applies first.