From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2005 01:30:59 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] git-am --one
Message-ID: <7vy82o5uss.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <439F7105.9050302@zytor.com>

"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> writes:

> This patch adds the --one (-o) option to git-am, to apply a single 
> message in RFC 2822 format, as opposed to an mbox.  With some MUAs it's 
> a lot easier to save individual messages than with mboxes, and either 
> way the user may want to control the ordering if there are known 
> interdependencies.

> +	# standard input.  To prepend the header, we thus want a
> +	# second cat, sigh...
> +	if test "$one" = t
> +	then
> +		LANG=C date +'From - %a %b %d %T %Y' > "$dotest"/fakefrom
> +		fakefrom="$dotest"/fakefrom
> +	else
> +		fakefrom=/dev/null
> +	fi
> +	cat "$@" | cat "$fakefrom" - |
>  	git-mailsplit -d$prec "$dotest/" >"$dotest/last" || {
>  		rm -fr "$dotest"
>  		exit 1

I understand the motivation, but I suspect skipping mailsplit
might be simpler, like this untested code perhaps?

	case "$one" in
        '')
        	... original code ...
		;;
        *)
		one=`printf "%${prec}d" 1`
        	cat "$@" >"$dotest/$one"
                echo "$one" >"$dotest/last"
                ;;
	esac