Re: [PATCH] mailsplit add option to include sanitized subject in filename

>> THe next level would be to still assume that you stop at the same
>> place (i.e. you do not support patches from multiple series in the
>> same mailbox), but use the number-santized-subject format.  This
>> would be a bit more involved, but I think all you need to update on
>> the "am" side is where the am_run() assigns the message file to the
>> local variable "mail".  You know the temporary directory where you
>> told "mailsplit" to create these individual messages, so you should
>> be able to "opendir/readdir/closedir" and create a list of numbered
>> files in the directory very early in "git am".  Knowing msgnum(state)
>> at that point in the loop, it should be trivial to change the code
>> that currently assumes the 4-th file is named "0004" to check for
>> the file whose name begins with "0004-".
>
> Yea, we pretty much just have to get the git-am process to work with the
> new names. I can look at using opendir/readdir here instead.

> Ya I don't care much about multiple series. I care more about making it
> handle scrambled series better than it does now. I download series off
> of lore.kernel.org (public-inbox based) and those seem to routinely have
> series out-of-order. I suspect this is because it bases them on arrival
> date and sometimes certain mailers get it out of order when sending.