From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Johannes Schindelin Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] Controversial blob munging series Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2007 15:50:19 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: References: <11772221041630-git-send-email-junkio@cox.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Cc: git@vger.kernel.org To: Junio C Hamano X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Mon Apr 23 15:50:55 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1HfywQ-0004Iy-RJ for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Mon, 23 Apr 2007 15:50:55 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751690AbXDWNuw (ORCPT ); Mon, 23 Apr 2007 09:50:52 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752851AbXDWNuw (ORCPT ); Mon, 23 Apr 2007 09:50:52 -0400 Received: from mail.gmx.net ([213.165.64.20]:39268 "HELO mail.gmx.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1751690AbXDWNuu (ORCPT ); Mon, 23 Apr 2007 09:50:50 -0400 Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 23 Apr 2007 13:50:49 -0000 Received: from unknown (EHLO [138.251.11.74]) [138.251.11.74] by mail.gmx.net (mp041) with SMTP; 23 Apr 2007 15:50:49 +0200 X-Authenticated: #1490710 X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX19c/HN7rFNcTLMUlGWTu7KwED7g13UCcJXG4LcHI4 f7jwbgEItKT9qx X-X-Sender: gene099@racer.site In-Reply-To: <11772221041630-git-send-email-junkio@cox.net> X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Hi, On Sat, 21 Apr 2007, Junio C Hamano wrote: > This is on top of 'next' I'll push out after I am done with > v1.5.1.2 I am preparing today. > > [1/2] Add 'filter' attribute and external filter driver definition. > [2/2] Add 'ident' conversion. I think this is great work! And it is useful, too. Let me describe a usage scenario I have in mind. Being stuck with Pine, which still does not do Maildir, and wanting to be able to read my mails as distributed as I am working on documents and software projects, I always dreamt of having all my mail in Git. With filters, it should be relatively easy to do that. Before checking in, the individual mailbox files are split, the contents are put into the object database, and the mailbox file is replaced by a text file consisting of the SHA1s of the mails. Ideally, I would eventually not only teach Pine to understand Maildir format, but read and store the mails in a Git backend. Alas, I am way too lazy for that. So, with filters I'd do the cheap and easy thing. You may not be able to appreciate the advantages of my scenario, but this kind of flexibility is what makes Git so useful. Ciao, Dscho