I do not use Maildir myself but people who do not know how Maildir look like (including myself) would be left wondering why there is even no error message when giving a random directory full of format-patch output to am. I am wondering if something like this would be helpful... builtin-mailsplit.c | 7 +++++-- 1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git i/builtin-mailsplit.c w/builtin-mailsplit.c index 71f3b3b..829abbb 100644 --- i/builtin-mailsplit.c +++ w/builtin-mailsplit.c @@ -122,16 +122,17 @@ static int populate_maildir_list(struct string_list *list, const char *path) char name[PATH_MAX]; char *subs[] = { "cur", "new", NULL }; char **sub; + int found = 0; for (sub = subs; *sub; ++sub) { snprintf(name, sizeof(name), "%s/%s", path, *sub); if ((dir = opendir(name)) == NULL) { if (errno == ENOENT) continue; - error("cannot opendir %s (%s)", name, strerror(errno)); - return -1; + return error("cannot opendir %s (%s)", name, strerror(errno)); } + found = 1; while ((dent = readdir(dir)) != NULL) { if (dent->d_name[0] == '.') continue; @@ -142,6 +143,8 @@ static int populate_maildir_list(struct string_list *list, const char *path) closedir(dir); } + if (!found) + return error("'%s' is not a Maildir (no 'cur' nor 'new' found)", path); return 0; } -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html