Re: [PATCH] commit-email.pl to produce mbox messages to stdout

C. Michael Pilato wrote:
> Hyrum K. Wright wrote:
>> Lars Müller wrote:
>>> On Wed, Dec 06, 2006 at 10:40:33AM -0500, C. Michael Pilato wrote:
>>>> I would recommend now that we add a command-line option for forcing
>>>> stdout mode. And then I would recommend one of two followup actions:
>>>>
>>>> * Either deprecate the -l option now that folks can use
>>>> commit-email.pl --stdout >> logfile (and get mbox format!)
>>>>
>>>> * Or at least make the -l option add the mbox From header.
>>> Attached as diff a version based on rev 22589 with a --stdout command
>>> line option. I reverted all former and not superfluous changes made
>>> with rev 22589.
>>>
>>> Your second suggestion is already the case as the -l option uses the
>>> same @head as stdout does.
>>>
>>> By intention I did not remove the -l option. This is up to one of the
>>> subversion committers.
>>>
>>> Might some users use -l to pass the message to a file and afterwards
>>> perform modifications on this file? If this is the case it might be
>>> usefull to stay with -l further. Yes, these users might even pipe the
>>> output to their modifying commands or redirect the output to a file.
>>> The only potential problem I see is after an update to a newer
>>> subversion version. A missing -l option might then break existing
>>> scripts.
>>>
>>> While testing I ran into the problem of a non valid mbox output as soon
>>> as the locale is set to something non US or non POSIX. The problem is
>>> the first line of the output. I first thought about circumventing this
>>> by setting the locale to POSIX while output the particular line. But we
>>> might consider to document this problem instead.
>> Ping...
>>
>> Has anybody looked at this part of Lars' patch? If nothing happens,
>> I'll file an issue in a few days.
>>
>> -Hyrum
>
> Hyrum, if you file this in the issue tracker, please add me as a Cc: on
> the issue. If no one gets around to it before, I'll try to review this,
> but can't do so right now for lack of time. Thanks.

Mike,
Just so that it isn't forgotten, I've filed this as issue 2689, and
added you as a Cc:.

-Hyrum