From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: jidanni@jidanni.org Subject: Re: [PATCH/RFC] Documentation/git-mailsplit.txt: Emphasize -o more Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2009 06:55:30 +0800 Message-ID: <87prisi17h.fsf@jidanni.org> References: <7vhc44gowr.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: git@vger.kernel.org To: gitster@pobox.com X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Mon Jan 12 23:56:59 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1LMViM-00009W-FJ for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Mon, 12 Jan 2009 23:56:58 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757675AbZALWzh (ORCPT ); Mon, 12 Jan 2009 17:55:37 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1762505AbZALWzf (ORCPT ); Mon, 12 Jan 2009 17:55:35 -0500 Received: from sd-green-bigip-81.dreamhost.com ([208.97.132.81]:46882 "EHLO homiemail-a1.g.dreamhost.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1760349AbZALWze (ORCPT ); Mon, 12 Jan 2009 17:55:34 -0500 Received: from jidanni.org (122-127-34-152.dynamic.hinet.net [122.127.34.152]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by homiemail-a1.g.dreamhost.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 374E0119DD4; Mon, 12 Jan 2009 14:55:33 -0800 (PST) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: All I know is the user had better not forget -o or else his precious mailbox will be interpreted as something else... Actually the problem is with builtin-mailsplit.c, $ git mailsplit -o fatal: unknown option: -o One big tangle. So I would just say + certain backward compatibility mode (that we won't detail here).