From: Eric Wong <e@80x24.org>
To: Konstantin Ryabitsev <konstantin@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: meta@public-inbox.org
Subject: Re: mbox support in other software
Date: Thu, 16 Sep 2021 20:30:53 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210916203053.GA25742@dcvr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210916135921.huvkda6sqnzi7ohs@meerkat.local>
Konstantin Ryabitsev <konstantin@linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 16, 2021 at 07:34:37AM +0000, Eric Wong wrote:
> > git supports mboxo and mboxrd, nowadays; but it seems like most
> > other software only know how to deal with one of the mbox family
> > (and mixing software on the same mbox leads to bad things).
>
> I'm not 100% sure git does the right thing with mboxo, see my tirade here:
> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/utils/b4/b4.git/commit/?id=4950093c0c3ee71e7045b545626d2b232271cbc8&dt=2
Yeah, I was wrong about git supporting mboxo. IIRC, "mbox" used
by git relies on strict "From " line parsing so it looks for
something that looks like asctime(3) output.
IOW, "mbox" for git does its own weird thing, which also sucks.
However, git's "mboxrd" (AFAIK) does the right thing (since
I contributed it to git :>)
prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-09-16 20:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-09-16 7:34 mbox support in other software Eric Wong
2021-09-16 13:59 ` Konstantin Ryabitsev
2021-09-16 20:30 ` Eric Wong [this message]
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