Better support for finding "changes since last I looked"

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Assessment

Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Newbie friendliness
25/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
python
Domain
api, backend

Research direction

Start by reviewing how clients currently retrieve patchwork data and how a sync script could identify a previously seen point. Define the change-tracking behavior and request format before implementation; it is done when clients can retrieve only changes since a prior marker without fetching the full history.

Written by the indexing model from the issue text.

Description

enhancement

Currently, there's no way to get data from patchwork and then find out what has changed to that data without fetching it all again.

e.g. if writing a script so sync tags in your email client (notmuch) with patchwork, you have to go through the entire list of all patches ever rather than ask "what's changed since last time".

How to implement this in a sane way is a good question :)

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Python
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