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From: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@grenoble-inp•fr>
To: Samuel GROOT <samuel.groot@grenoble-inp•org>
Cc: Eric Wong <e@80x24•org>,
	git@vger•kernel.org, erwan.mathoniere@grenoble-inp•org,
	jordan.de-gea@grenoble-inp•org, gitster@pobox•com,
	aaron@schrab•com
Subject: Re: [WIP-PATCH 0/2] send-email: refactor the email parser loop
Date: Mon, 30 May 2016 16:20:45 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <vpqfuszaapu.fsf@anie.imag.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <0abbc11b-5741-ee2e-292c-245c2b974f8e@grenoble-inp.org> (Samuel GROOT's message of "Mon, 30 May 2016 16:01:29 +0200")

Samuel GROOT <samuel.groot@grenoble-inp•org> 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/

  reply	other threads:[~2016-05-30 14:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-05-27 14:01 [WIP-PATCH 0/2] send-email: refactor the email parser loop Samuel GROOT
2016-05-27 14:01 ` [WIP-PATCH 1/2] send-email: create email parser subroutine Samuel GROOT
2016-05-28 15:22   ` Matthieu Moy
2016-05-28 23:33     ` Eric Wong
2016-05-29 17:15       ` Samuel GROOT
2016-05-29 17:53         ` Matthieu Moy
2016-05-30 13:28           ` Samuel GROOT
2016-06-02 16:57       ` Samuel GROOT
2016-06-02 19:58         ` Eric Wong
2016-05-27 14:01 ` [WIP-PATCH 2/2] send-email: use refactored subroutine to parse patches Samuel GROOT
2016-05-27 20:14 ` [WIP-PATCH 0/2] send-email: refactor the email parser loop Eric Wong
2016-05-28 15:04   ` Matthieu Moy
2016-05-29 17:21     ` Samuel GROOT
2016-05-29 18:05       ` Matthieu Moy
2016-05-30 14:01         ` Samuel GROOT
2016-05-30 14:20           ` Matthieu Moy [this message]
2016-05-30 18:28             ` Samuel GROOT
2016-05-30 19:29               ` Matthieu Moy

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