Re: [PATCH] mailinfo: accept >From in message header

From: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@mellanox.co.il>
Date: Jul 27, 2006, 21:32 UTC
Message-ID: <20060727213251.GA17234@mellanox.co.il>
In-Reply-To: <7vbqraoi9s.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

Quoting r. Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>:

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> Subject: Re: [PATCH] mailinfo: accept >From in message header
> 
> "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@mellanox.co.il> writes:
> 
> > From Majordomo@vger.kernel.org  Thu Jul 27 16:39:36 2006
> >>From mtsirkin  Thu Jul 27 16:39:36 2006
> > Received: from yok.mtl.com [10.0.8.11]
> > ....
> >
> > which confuses git-mailinfo since that does not recognize >From
> > as a valid header line. The following patch makes git-applymbox
> > work for me:
> 
> Wouldn't that kind of breakage confuse git-mailsplit as well?
>

Hmm - I normally don't use it - just pipe stiff from mutt into git-applymbox. A quick test seems to indicate git-mailsplit works fine.

But why should it - mailsplit just needs ^From to match new mail, correct? So the escaped >From is good for it.

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