Re: [PATCH 0/2] Controversial blob munging series

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Apr 23, 2007, 13:50 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0704231540580.8822@racer.site>
In-Reply-To: <11772221041630-git-send-email-junkio@cox.net>

Hi,

On Sat, 21 Apr 2007, Junio C Hamano wrote:

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> This is on top of 'next' I'll push out after I am done with
> v1.5.1.2 I am preparing today.
> 
> [1/2] Add 'filter' attribute and external filter driver definition.
> [2/2] Add 'ident' conversion.

I think this is great work! And it is useful, too. Let me describe a usage scenario I have in mind.

Being stuck with Pine, which still does not do Maildir, and wanting to be able to read my mails as distributed as I am working on documents and software projects, I always dreamt of having all my mail in Git.

With filters, it should be relatively easy to do that. Before checking in, the individual mailbox files are split, the contents are put into the object database, and the mailbox file is replaced by a text file consisting of the SHA1s of the mails.

Ideally, I would eventually not only teach Pine to understand Maildir format, but read and store the mails in a Git backend. Alas, I am way too lazy for that.

So, with filters I'd do the cheap and easy thing.

You may not be able to appreciate the advantages of my scenario, but this kind of flexibility is what makes Git so useful.

Ciao, Dscho