Re: What's in git.git (Aug 2009, #01; Wed, 05)

Nanako Shiraishi wrote:

Quoting Brandon Casey [off-list ref]

quoted

Junio C Hamano wrote:

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The 1.6.4 release seems to have been quite solid, and there is no
brown-paper-bag bugfixes on 'maint' yet ;-).

Found one.

I didn't realize the whole git-am discussion did _not_ result in a
fix being applied.  But git-am will currently refuse to apply any
patch from email that does not have "From " or "From: " in the first
three lines of the email.  For those of us whose mail servers prepend
many lines of the form:

Received: from XXX ([XXX]) by XXX with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.2825);
	 Tue, 14 Jul 2009 07:24:06 -0500

According to an already hashed out discussion, that isn't a mbox format that has been supported, so it isn't even a bug. For details, see e.g.

    http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/123338/focus=123355

And Nicolas Sebrecht has been working with Junio to implement an enhancement to add support for the "individual piece of email" format.

Commit b3f041fb0f7de167dbb6711b0a231d36c4b5de08 titled 'git-am support for
naked email messages (take 2)' by H. Peter Anvin from December 2005 seems
to indicate otherwise.

IMHO, I think something was indeed broken here, but it is a moot point
since it will all be fixed (or "enhanced" depending on your POV) soon. :)

-brandon