Re: [PATCH] git-mailsplit: with maildirs try to process new/ if cur/ is empty

> On Tue, Nov 06, 2007 at 11:01:03AM +0000, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> 
> > > > 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.
> 
> Read my message again. Alex is proposing ignoring errors in opening the
> directories; I am proposing ignoring such errors _only_ when the error
> is that the directory does not exist.
> 
> IOW, if there is some other error in opening the directory, it should be
> fatal, because you might be missing patches.