From: Junio C Hamano Date: Fri, 01 Mar 2013 23:24:42 GMT Subject: Re: [bug report] git-am applying maildir patches in reverse Message-ID: <7vlia6em9x.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: <20130301230508.GC862@sigill.intra.peff.net> Jeff King writes: > 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.