Re: [PATCH 2/3] Re: mailinfo: allow individual e-mail files as input

> The 06/08/09, Brandon Casey wrote:
> 
>>  git-am.sh     |   14 ++++++++++++++
>>  t/t4150-am.sh |    2 +-
>>  2 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/git-am.sh b/git-am.sh
>> index d64d997..dd60f5d 100755
>> --- a/git-am.sh
>> +++ b/git-am.sh
>> @@ -191,6 +191,20 @@ check_patch_format () {
>>  			esac
>>  			;;
>>  		esac
>> +		if test -z "$patch_format" &&
>> +			test -n "$l1" &&
>> +			test -n "$l2" &&
>> +			test -n "$l3"
>> +		then
>> +			# This begins with three non-empty lines.  Is this a
>> +			# piece of e-mail a-la RFC2822?  Grab all the headers,
>> +			# discarding the indented remainder of folded lines,
>> +			# and see if it looks like that they all begin with the
>> +			# header field names...
>> +			sed -n -e '/^$/q' -e '/^[ 	]/d' -e p "$1" |
>> +			egrep -v '^[A-Za-z]+(-[A-Za-z]+)*:' >/dev/null ||
>> +			patch_format=mbox
>> +		fi
>>  	} < "$1" || clean_abort
>>  }
> 
> May I ask why you resurrect this "first three lines check for rfc2822"
> instead of dumbly falling back to the "mbox" patch_format? Performance?