Re: [PATCH 0/2] Controversial blob munging series

[Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>]

Hi,

On Mon, 23 Apr 2007, Julian Phillips wrote:

> On Mon, 23 Apr 2007, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> 
> > 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.
> 
> You do know about Eduardo Chappa's patches for pine?  In particular
> http://staff.washington.edu/chappa/pine/info/maildir.html.

I did not.

Thanks,
Dscho