Re: [PATCH] Allow user to specify mailbox format for mailsplit

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Junio C Hamano, Tue, May 22, 2007 01:19:25 +0200:
> Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
> 
> > If the argument ends with a slash - assume it is a Maildir and try to
> > create it. Otherwise - it is an mbox.
> 
> Sorry, I am lost here.  git-mailsplit is to read an existing
> mbox and split the pieces of e-mail into the specified output
> directory.  The recent Maildir support is to make it read pieces
> of e-mails from an existing Maildir (which presumably have bunch
> of files that store e-mail), isn't it?

Oh... Fernando, I'm very sorry. I never used mailsplit and didn't even
gave a second thought about its name. For reasons unknown, I assumed
the mbox/maildir argument is for the output.
Must be all the ozone depletion and the cosmic rays now causing
glitches in programmers brains...

> If the patch were about creating a new _output_ directory (that
> is, "dir" in cmd_mailsplit), I would understand what you are
> trying to do, but why would you even want to create the input
> Maildir in that loop (I take that your patch is on top of
> Fernando's patch)?

Yes, but don't apply it! :)

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