Re: [bug report] git-am applying maildir patches in reverse

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Mar 1, 2013, 23:24 UTC
Message-ID: <7vlia6em9x.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <20130301230508.GC862@sigill.intra.peff.net>

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

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> On Fri, Mar 01, 2013 at 05:52:31PM -0500, Jeff King wrote:
> ...
>> The maildir spec explicitly says that readers should not make
>> assumptions about the content of the filenames. Mutt happens to write
>> them as:
>> 
>>   ${epoch_seconds}.${pid}_${seq}.${host}
>> 
>> so in practice, sorting them kind of works. Except that ...
>> << it does not work >> ...
> That ordering is not necessarily useful.
> ...
> So it is somewhat against the maildir spec, but I think in practice it
> would help.

I do not think it would help, unless these epoch_seconds are the sender timestamps. And the number of digits in epoch-seconds for recent messages would be the same, so ordering textually would be sufficient if ordering by timestamp were.