From: Jacob Keller <jacob.keller@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2024 03:22:02 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mailsplit add option to include sanitized subject in filename
Message-ID: <CA+P7+xooa08Y-D8CXDGK7_aZ5c2b9iXM6+rFS5qNLyZaG0Kh3A@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <xmqqpluz2tau.fsf@gitster.g>

On Mon, Apr 8, 2024 at 6:55 PM Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
>
> Jacob Keller <jacob.e.keller@intel.com> writes:
>
> > I originally wanted to avoid the need for an option, but git-am
> > currently depends on the strict sequence number filenames.  It is
> > unclear how difficult it would be to refactor git-am to work with
> > names that include the extra subject data.
>
> I am not sure if I follow.  Do you mean
>
>         $ git am ./dir/0*.txt
>

No, I mean git am invokes git mailsplit to split a mailbox file into a
temporary directory, and then expects to find exactly "0000", "0001",
"0002" etc, but not "0001-fix-bug" and "0002-implement-feature"