From: Matthieu Moy Date: Mon, 30 May 2016 14:20:45 GMT Subject: Re: [WIP-PATCH 0/2] send-email: refactor the email parser loop Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <0abbc11b-5741-ee2e-292c-245c2b974f8e@grenoble-inp.org> Samuel GROOT writes: > (mbox) prefix was introduced by Ryan Anderson in 2005 (can't find the > exact commit though), in opposition with the (non-mbox) format ("lots > of email") that was used before. That is actually from the original commit introducing send-email: 83b2443 ([PATCH] Add git-send-email-script - tool to send emails from git-format-patch-script, 2005-07-31), i.e. ~3 month after Git was born. At that time, user-friendlyness was not really a priority ;-). > Is the "lots of email" format still used? AFAICT, it was initially supported for backward compatibility, and then no one removed it, but I wouldn't be surprised if no one actually used it. I vaguely remember a message from Ryan Anderson being surprised to see the old format still supported, but I can't find it in the archives. In any case: - git log --grep 'lots of email' => shows only 83b2443 - git log -S'lots of email' => likewise - git grep 'lots of email' => just one answer in a comment I'm not sure the feature is even tested. -- Matthieu Moy http://www-verimag.imag.fr/~moy/