From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Fri, 08 Feb 2008 00:12:26 GMT
Subject: Re: Using thunderbird to post/apply patches?
Message-ID: <alpine.LSU.1.00.0802080011420.11591@racer.site>
In-Reply-To: <46a038f90802071542j765a8501kc57b065f22c734b2@mail.gmail.com>

Hi,

On Fri, 8 Feb 2008, Martin Langhoff wrote:

> On Feb 8, 2008 12:34 PM, Johannes Schindelin 
> <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> wrote:
>
> > Martin wrote:
> >
> > >  - Feed an email I am reading to git-apply-mbox so that if it's 
> > > reasonably formatted as a patch it will do the right thing and apply 
> > > it.
> >
> > Recently, git-am learnt to apply mails in maildir format.  
> > Thunderbird uses maildir format internally, if I am not mistaken.
> 
> It uses mbox - but the delimiter is somewhat broken, so sometimes git-am 
> fails to split the emails correctly.
> 
> A pretty sad story overall. Grumble...

Do you have an example of a non-working mbox for git-am?

Thanks,
Dscho