Re: Make "git am" properly unescape lines matching ">>*From "

On Tue, 08 Jun 2010 13:54:32 -0700, "H. Peter Anvin" [off-list ref] wrote:

On 06/08/2010 01:47 PM, Carl Worth wrote:

quoted

I've also noticed that format-patch is generating bogus mbox files
without any escaping. (The only way it gets away with this is that
mailsplit only treats "From " lines as separators if they end with
something that looks quite a bit like the output of asctime.)

At the same time, it would be a fairly major lose to not be able to
generate individual messages easily.  I have personally considered the
fact that git format-patch produces something-vaguely-like mboxes rather
than individual plain RFC 2822 messages to be a bug; fixable by "tail"
but annoying.

I totally agree. I said as much later on in the message. We should fix
format-patch to not emit the "From " line when generating files for
individual messages, (and we should fix send-email to accept such a bare
file).

That much is easy to agree on since it involves using mbox less, so the
whole "which mbox format to use?" question goes away, (for these uses at
least).

-Carl

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