From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Tue, 06 Nov 2007 11:01:03 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] git-mailsplit: with maildirs try to process new/ if cur/ is empty
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0711061100150.4362@racer.site>
In-Reply-To: <20071106075150.GA21694@sigill.intra.peff.net>

Hi,

On Tue, 6 Nov 2007, Jeff King wrote:

> On Tue, Nov 06, 2007 at 08:28:31AM +0100, Alex Riesen wrote:
> 
> > > In Maildir format, cur and new hold the mails. :P
> > 
> > So? Why *STOP* reading the mails if just one of the directories could 
> > not be opened? IOW, I suggest:
> 
> Because you are then trying to apply a patch series with some patches 
> potentially missing? Continuing only on errno == ENOENT seems prudent.

I fail to see how the absence of one of cur/ or new/ can lead to the 
absence of patches.  You could forget to save some patches, yes, but the 
presence of cur/ and new/ is no indicator for that.

Ciao,
Dscho