Re: [PATCH] Added --export option to git-send-email.

From: Avery Pennarun <apenwarr@gmail.com>
Date: Jul 14, 2008, 03:41 UTC
Message-ID: <32541b130807132041jae15352mc605c37386309a3c@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <7vtzetkviy.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>

On 7/13/08, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:

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> "Avery Pennarun" <apenwarr@gmail.com> writes:
> > If git is going to start actually producing mbox files (as opposed to
>  > just individual messages as it does now), it should probably
>  > explicitly take a stance on the issue...
>
> Yeah, that makes one reason I should not be enthusiastic to take this
>  patch.

Eduard: perhaps instead of a --export option, what about an option to
run an external program that will take the given email on stdin and
process it however you want? ... aha, it seems this already exists in
the --smtp-server option.  So a shell script like this as your
--smtp-server should do what you want:

    #!/bin/sh
    exec sed s/'^\(>*From \)/>\1/'

Thus the result of git-send-email would be a series of emails concatenated to stdout, with From lines escaped appropriately.

Have fun,

Avery