Re: [PATCH V2 00/13] xfs: remove the xfssyncd mess

Dave Chinner
2012-08-31T08:41:41Z

On Fri, Aug 31, 2012 at 08:18:25AM +0200, Markus Trippelsdorf wrote:
> On 2012.08.31 at 08:51 +1000, Dave Chinner wrote:
> > On Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 02:15:16PM +0200, Markus Trippelsdorf wrote:
> > > On 2012.08.30 at 22:00 +1000, Dave Chinner wrote:
> > > > Version 2 of the patchset I described here:
> > > >
> > > > http://oss.sgi.com/archives/xfs/2012-06/msg00064.html
> > > >
> > > > This version has run through xfstests completely once, so it's
> > > > less likely to let smoke out....
> > >
> > > Is there a publicly accessible git tree available where one could pull
> > > from? (This would be way easier than saving and hand-applying 13
> > > patches.)
> >
> > No.
> >
> > Instead, save all the patches to a single mbox format file, then run:
> >
> > $ git checkout -b umount-fix-test
> > $ git am <mbox file>
> >
> > And it will apply all the patches as separate commits to the
> > umount-fix-test branch. This is how I take patch sets from my inbox
> > to git. You can build and testing them from there.
>
> Yeah. That works if you're using mbox format files. But if you're are a
> Maildir user like myself you're basically screwed, because
> $ git am <Maildir>
> expects the Maildir to be *sorted* and because mails normally don't
> arrive in the right order, git-am will therefore try to apply the
> patches in the wrong order. (Maybe this should be reported to the git
> mailing-list)
>
> So if there are mutt users out there who use "mbox_type=Maildir" and
> know how to save a thread to a single mbox file, then please let me
> know.

I use mutt, and store all my mail folders in maildir format.
However, I don't use mbox_type=Maildir - I simply create new maildir
folders via the CLI when I need a new one. Mutt automatically
recognises the directories as being in maildir format and uses it.
Hence when I tag a thread and ;s to save all the tagged mail, it
creates a mbox file as that is the default.

That probably doesn't help you, though. However, IIRC, you can get
the same result regardless of your mbox_type by piping all the
tagged mail through formail and redirecting that to a file like so:

;| formail -ds > $file

and that will result in $file being a mbox format file with all the
tagged mail in it...

Cheers,

Dave.
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Dave Chinner
david@fromorbit.com