From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2007 02:34:16 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/5] add the ability to select more email header fields to output
Message-ID: <7vodmxoorb.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <68948ca0703121821h72f6c08ak9f38cae40240ac59@mail.gmail.com>

"Don Zickus" <dzickus@gmail.com> writes:

> On 3/12/07, Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> wrote:
>> Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com> writes:
>>
>> > This is useful when scripts need more than just the basic email headers to
>> > parse.  By specifying the "-x=" option, one can search and output any header
>> > field they want.
>>
>> It probably is useful, but that is rather difficult to judge,
>> unless you have a specific use in the scripts (am/applymox).
>
> I have my own custom clone of git-am I am using to extract the
> Message-id, In-Reply-To, and References fields.  For awhile I had the
> fields hardcoded in my version of git-mailinfo.  But instead of
> maintaining it, I was hoping I could push it upstream.  One less thing
> to maintain on my own.  :-)

Fair enough.

> oops.  left over comment from old code.  I'll clean that up.

I've applied 1, 3, 4 and 5 for now, but have't pushed the
results out (I have other patches to tend first).