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PATCH In review H. Peter Anvin 2 participants 6 messages Jun 15, 2016 Documentation

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PATCH 1/1 git-am --one

This patch adds the --one (-o) option to git-am, to apply a single message in RFC 2822 format, as opposed to an mbox. With some MUAs it's a lot easier to save individual messages than with mboxes, and either way the user may want to control the ordering if there are known interdependencies.

Documentation/git-am.txt +5 -1
index a415fe2..bec5c84 100644
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ git-am - Apply a series of patches in a 
 
 SYNOPSIS
 --------
-'git-am' [--signoff] [--dotest=<dir>] [--utf8] [--binary] [--3way] <mbox>...
+'git-am' [--one] [--signoff] [--dotest=<dir>] [--utf8] [--binary] [--3way] <mbox>...
 'git-am' [--skip | --resolved]
 
 DESCRIPTION
@@ -19,6 +19,10 @@ current branch.
 
 OPTIONS
 -------
+--one::
+	Indicates that <mbox> contains a single message in RFC 2822
+	format, without mbox-style separators.
+
 --signoff::
 	Add `Signed-off-by:` line to the commit message, using
 	the committer identity of yourself.
git-am.sh +14 -4
index 6ed527c..9628651 100755
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 . git-sh-setup
 
 usage () {
-    echo >&2 "usage: $0 [--signoff] [--dotest=<dir>] [--utf8] [--binary] [--3way] <mbox>"
+    echo >&2 "usage: $0 [--one] [--signoff] [--dotest=<dir>] [--utf8] [--binary] [--3way] <mbox>"
     echo >&2 "	or, when resuming"
     echo >&2 "	$0 [--skip | --resolved]"
     exit 1;
@@ -98,11 +98,13 @@ fall_back_3way () {
 }
 
 prec=4
-dotest=.dotest sign= utf8= keep= skip= interactive= resolved= binary=
+dotest=.dotest sign= utf8= keep= skip= interactive= resolved= binary= one=
 
 while case "$#" in 0) break;; esac
 do
 	case "$1" in
+	-o|--o|--on|--one)
+	one=t; shift;;
 	-d=*|--d=*|--do=*|--dot=*|--dote=*|--dotes=*|--dotest=*)
 	dotest=`expr "$1" : '-[^=]*=\(.*\)'`; shift ;;
 	-d|--d|--do|--dot|--dote|--dotes|--dotest)
@@ -165,8 +167,16 @@ else
 	mkdir -p "$dotest" || exit
 
 	# cat does the right thing for us, including '-' to mean
-	# standard input.
-	cat "$@" |
+	# standard input.  To prepend the header, we thus want a
+	# second cat, sigh...
+	if test "$one" = t
+	then
+		LANG=C date +'From - %a %b %d %T %Y' > "$dotest"/fakefrom
+		fakefrom="$dotest"/fakefrom
+	else
+		fakefrom=/dev/null
+	fi
+	cat "$@" | cat "$fakefrom" - |
 	git-mailsplit -d$prec "$dotest/" >"$dotest/last" || {
 		rm -fr "$dotest"
 		exit 1
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Quoted 4 lines · H. Peter Anvin

This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------080605010801030702080802
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit

BTW, this is totally offtopic, but I find it somewhat puzzling to see somebody like you, one of Linus' trusted lieutenants, is sending a patch as an attachment.

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Quoted 9 lines · H. Peter Anvin

This patch adds the --one (-o) option to git-am, to apply a single message in RFC 2822 format, as opposed to an mbox. With some MUAs it's a lot easier to save individual messages than with mboxes, and either way the user may want to control the ordering if there are known interdependencies.

git-am.sh +3 -0
+	# standard input.  To prepend the header, we thus want a
+	# second cat, sigh...
+	if test "$one" = t

git-am.sh else · line 182

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git-am.sh +7 -0
+	then
+		LANG=C date +'From - %a %b %d %T %Y' > "$dotest"/fakefrom
+		fakefrom="$dotest"/fakefrom
+	else
+		fakefrom=/dev/null
+	fi
+	cat "$@" | cat "$fakefrom" - |
 	git-mailsplit -d$prec "$dotest/" >"$dotest/last" || {
 		rm -fr "$dotest"
 		exit 1

I understand the motivation, but I suspect skipping mailsplit might be simpler, like this untested code perhaps?

	case "$one" in
        '')
        	... original code ...
		;;
        *)
		one=`printf "%${prec}d" 1`
        	cat "$@" >"$dotest/$one"
                echo "$one" >"$dotest/last"
                ;;
	esac
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Quoted 4 lines · Junio C Hamano

I understand the motivation, but I suspect skipping mailsplit might be simpler, like this untested code perhaps?

Quoted 11 lines
	case "$one" in
        '')
        	... original code ...
		;;
        *)
		one=`printf "%${prec}d" 1`
        	cat "$@" >"$dotest/$one"
                echo "$one" >"$dotest/last"
                ;;
	esac

If that works, great. I just implemented it in the "most obviously correct" way, meaning with as few changes as possible.

-hpa

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Quoted 15 lines · H. Peter Anvin
Quoted 13 lines · Junio C Hamano

I understand the motivation, but I suspect skipping mailsplit might be simpler, like this untested code perhaps?

	case "$one" in
        '')
        	... original code ...
		;;
        *)
		one=`printf "%${prec}d" 1`
        	cat "$@" >"$dotest/$one"
                echo "$one" >"$dotest/last"
                ;;
	esac
Quoted 2 lines

If that works, great. I just implemented it in the "most obviously correct" way, meaning with as few changes as possible.

Another thing you may probably want is to loop over "$@", so that the flag is not --one anymore, but --2822 (or --bare as opposed to mbox format) and do something like this:

	case "$series_of_2822_messages" in
        '') ... original code ... ;;
        *)
        	i=1
                for input
                do
			this=`printf "%${prec}d" $i
                        cp "$input" "$dotest/$this"
                        i=$(($i+1))
		done
                printf "%${prec}d" $# >"$dotest/last"
                ;;
	esac
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Quoted 5 lines · Junio C Hamano

Another thing you may probably want is to loop over "$@", so that the flag is not --one anymore, but --2822 (or --bare as opposed to mbox format) and do something like this:

Quoted 14 lines
	case "$series_of_2822_messages" in
        '') ... original code ... ;;
        *)
        	i=1
                for input
                do
			this=`printf "%${prec}d" $i
                        cp "$input" "$dotest/$this"
                        i=$(($i+1))
		done
                printf "%${prec}d" $# >"$dotest/last"
                ;;
	esac

That is definitely a good idea. I'll mess with it a bit.

-hpa