Maildir ordering in git-mailsplit (was: Using mutt as a git maintainer)

Hi Richard,

Richard Braun writes:

I'm currently setting up several git repositories, both for personal stuff
and at work, and I also am an avid Mutt user. But I have a problem with the
"braindamaged" git-mailsplit program and how it interacts badly with how
Mutt does some things.

The specific case that troubles me is when using git send-email with several
patches, say around 10, then getting those in my lovely Mutt as one thread,
with chainreplyto set to false because i'm a nice person who RTFM. Until now
everything looks perfect. Then I tag the thread and copy it out to a
temporary mailbox so that I can run git am and do something else with my
life. Problem: I use Maildir mailboxes, and with several files, mutt doesn't
preserve the order of the patches. As git-mailsplit uses a raw opendir()
to access patches in Maildir format, and doesn't try to sort anything after,
some patch series just won't apply simply.

Ah, it looks like this problem went unnoticed probably because
everyone uses mboxes. One possible solution would be to teach
`git-mailsplit` to order the emails correctly. You can reply with an
RFC patch; I've CC'ed the Git list on this email.

I'm using git 1.5.6.5 and Mutt 1.5.18 (from Debian lenny), pretty old but
after checking the most recent source code, it just seems to be the same.

Yeah, I don't think git-mailsplit has changed in some time.

-- Ram