From: Paolo Bonzini Date: Sun, 28 Jun 2009 07:52:12 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH] git-format-patch, git-send-email: generate/handle escaped >From Message-ID: <4A47212C.5070000@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4A30F16C.5040207@gmail.com> Paolo Bonzini wrote: > >> But of course, which conversion you want depends entirely on what you >> are going to feed it to, and which mbox they are expecting. Which is why >> it really should be configurable. >> >> Your use case looks to be feeding it to send-email > > Almost, :-) because git-send-email does not support sending multiple > messages out of one mbox file. I have an upcoming patch to add this > support, and I was just "feeling the waters" before posting it. I decided that it's easier to support sending a single mbox file with this alias instead: send-mbox = "!bash -ec 'eval f=\\$$#; eval set -- `seq -f\"\\$%.0f\" 1 $(($#-1))`; if last=`mkdir .mboxsplit && git mailsplit -d4 -o.mboxsplit -b -- \"$f\"`; then echo Found $last messages in \"$f\"; git send-email \"$@\" .mboxsplit && rm -rf .mboxsplit; else rm -rf .mboxsplit; fi' -" So, patch withdrawn. I don't think I'll post the patches in my mailsplit-with-sendemail branch. Paolo