Sometimes users will copy+paste an entire mbox into a
commit message, leading to bad splits when a patch is
output as an email.
Unlike other mbox-family formats, mboxrd allows reversible
round-tripping while avoiding bad splits for old "mboxo"
readers.
I'm also considering altering the current
"From ${COMMIT} Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001" line to something
else so mailsplit (or "am") can autodetect.
Maybe:
From ${COMMIT}@mboxrd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
?
We may also want to default to single escaping "From " in
commit messages for --pretty=email to avoid corruption when
somebody copy+pastes an mbox into the commit message.
This is a technically incompatible change, but I think it's
preferable to breaking splitting complete.
In other words, --pretty=email changes to output "mboxo"
for now.
Long term (possibly git 3.0?), maybe mboxrd can become the
default mail format. IMHO, it should've been since 2005.
ref: http://homepage.ntlworld.com/jonathan.deboynepollard/FGA/mail-mbox-formats.html
Eric Wong (3):
pretty: support "mboxrd" output format
mailsplit: support unescaping mboxrd messages
am: support --patch-format=mboxrd
Documentation/git-am.txt | 3 ++-
Documentation/git-mailsplit.txt | 7 ++++++-
builtin/am.c | 14 ++++++++++---
builtin/log.c | 2 +-
builtin/mailsplit.c | 23 +++++++++++++++++++++
commit.h | 6 ++++++
log-tree.c | 4 ++--
pretty.c | 45 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--------
t/t4014-format-patch.sh | 27 +++++++++++++++++++++++++
t/t4150-am.sh | 20 ++++++++++++++++++
t/t5100-mailinfo.sh | 13 ++++++++++++
t/t5100/0001mboxrd | 4 ++++
t/t5100/0002mboxrd | 3 +++
t/t5100/sample.mboxrd | 17 ++++++++++++++++
14 files changed, 172 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-)
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