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

From: Julian Phillips <julian@quantumfyre.co.uk>
Date: Apr 23, 2007, 16:29 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0704231725520.22673@reaper.quantumfyre.co.uk>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0704231540580.8822@racer.site>

On Mon, 23 Apr 2007, Johannes Schindelin wrote:

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> 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.

You do know about Eduardo Chappa's patches for pine? In particular http://staff.washington.edu/chappa/pine/info/maildir.html.

-- 
Julian

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