# Mailsplit

3 messages from 2018-09-06 to 2018-09-07. Participants: Stephen & Linda Smith, Kevin Daudt.
Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/49291

## Stephen & Linda Smith, 2018-09-06 04:17

Subject: Mailsplit
Message-ID: <6663238.U5hdlisbr1@thunderbird>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/6663238.U5hdlisbr1%40thunderbird

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I thought I would use "git mailsplit" to split a mbox file (which downloaded 
from public inbox) so that I could attemp to resurrect a patch series for from 
a year ago.  

The motivation is that I downloaded the series [1] and applied to a tag from 
about the time period that the patch was sent out [2].  

The "git am -3 patch.mbox  quit 2/3 of the way though.   I resolved the fix. 
and ran "git am --continue" which didn't apply the rest of the patches in the 
mbox.

So two questions:
1)  why would git version 2.18.0 not appear to continue applying the patches.   

2) where do I find the command "git mailsplit".   The onlything in my 
installed tree is:

	$ find  /usr/local/ -name '*mailsplit*'
	/usr/local/share/doc/git-doc/git-mailsplit.txt
	/usr/local/share/doc/git-doc/git-mailsplit.html
	/usr/local/share/man/man1/git-mailsplit.1
	/usr/local/libexec/git-core/git-mailsplit

sps

[1] https://public-inbox.org/git/1502914591-26215-1-git-send-email-martin@mail.zuhause/

[2] I wanted to make sure that I could apply back then before attempting to 
either apply to the latest git version or rebase to the latest git version. 




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## Kevin Daudt, 2018-09-07 15:15

Subject: Re: Mailsplit
Message-ID: <20180907151543.GE27205@alpha>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/20180907151543.GE27205%40alpha
In-Reply-To: <6663238.U5hdlisbr1@thunderbird>

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On Wed, Sep 05, 2018 at 09:17:29PM -0700, Stephen & Linda Smith wrote:
> I thought I would use "git mailsplit" to split a mbox file (which downloaded 
> from public inbox) so that I could attemp to resurrect a patch series for from 
> a year ago.  
> 
> The motivation is that I downloaded the series [1] and applied to a tag from 
> about the time period that the patch was sent out [2].  
> 
> The "git am -3 patch.mbox  quit 2/3 of the way though.   I resolved the fix. 
> and ran "git am --continue" which didn't apply the rest of the patches in the 
> mbox.
> 
> So two questions:
> 1)  why would git version 2.18.0 not appear to continue applying the patches.   
> 
> 2) where do I find the command "git mailsplit".   The onlything in my 
> installed tree is:
> 
> 	$ find  /usr/local/ -name '*mailsplit*'
> 	/usr/local/share/doc/git-doc/git-mailsplit.txt
> 	/usr/local/share/doc/git-doc/git-mailsplit.html
> 	/usr/local/share/man/man1/git-mailsplit.1
> 	/usr/local/libexec/git-core/git-mailsplit

This is the mailsplit command, and should be executed when running `git
mailsplit`. What does git --exec-dir return?

Kevin

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## Stephen & Linda Smith, 2018-09-07 17:09

Subject: Re: Mailsplit
Message-ID: <1628565.fYxLUN5jIU@thunderbird>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/1628565.fYxLUN5jIU%40thunderbird
In-Reply-To: <6663238.U5hdlisbr1@thunderbird>

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On Friday, September 7, 2018 8:15:43 AM MST Kevin Daudt wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 05, 2018 at 09:17:29PM -0700, Stephen & Linda Smith wrote:
> 
> This is the mailsplit command, and should be executed when running `git
> mailsplit`. What does git --exec-dir return?
> 

The other night when I ran "git mailsplit", I recieved an unknown command 
response.  Since then I have upated to 2.19.0 plush my submitted patches for 
git commit.  With the new build mailsplit is found.

I don't know what was wrong before.




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