From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Matthieu Moy Subject: Re: [WIP-PATCH 0/2] send-email: refactor the email parser loop Date: Mon, 30 May 2016 16:20:45 +0200 Message-ID: References: <20160527140104.11192-1-samuel.groot@grenoble-inp.org> <20160527201436.GA16547@dcvr.yhbt.net> <7423b133-cec4-e633-f1ef-70ccc6a6cc02@grenoble-inp.org> <0abbc11b-5741-ee2e-292c-245c2b974f8e@grenoble-inp.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Cc: Eric Wong , git@vger.kernel.org, erwan.mathoniere@grenoble-inp.org, jordan.de-gea@grenoble-inp.org, gitster@pobox.com, aaron@schrab.com To: Samuel GROOT X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Mon May 30 16:21:21 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1b7O4F-0005jj-4D for gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org; Mon, 30 May 2016 16:21:19 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754964AbcE3OVM (ORCPT ); Mon, 30 May 2016 10:21:12 -0400 Received: from mx1.imag.fr ([129.88.30.5]:39364 "EHLO mx1.imag.fr" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S933116AbcE3OU6 (ORCPT ); Mon, 30 May 2016 10:20:58 -0400 Received: from clopinette.imag.fr (clopinette.imag.fr [129.88.34.215]) by mx1.imag.fr (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id u4UEKiun031125 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA bits=128 verify=NO); Mon, 30 May 2016 16:20:45 +0200 Received: from anie (anie.imag.fr [129.88.42.32]) by clopinette.imag.fr (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id u4UEKj9H005764; Mon, 30 May 2016 16:20:45 +0200 In-Reply-To: <0abbc11b-5741-ee2e-292c-245c2b974f8e@grenoble-inp.org> (Samuel GROOT's message of "Mon, 30 May 2016 16:01:29 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.4 (gnu/linux) X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.0.1 (mx1.imag.fr [129.88.30.5]); Mon, 30 May 2016 16:20:46 +0200 (CEST) X-IMAG-MailScanner-Information: Please contact MI2S MIM for more information X-MailScanner-ID: u4UEKiun031125 X-IMAG-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-IMAG-MailScanner-SpamCheck: X-IMAG-MailScanner-From: matthieu.moy@grenoble-inp.fr MailScanner-NULL-Check: 1465222846.46203@/ktBB+ZvAlll/H1i8ulZLw Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: 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/