mailsplit: support unescaping mboxrd messages

This will allow us to parse the output of --pretty=mboxrd
and the output of other mboxrd generators.

Signed-off-by: Eric Wong <e@80x24.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

1 files changed, 18 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/builtin/mailsplit.c b/builtin/mailsplit.c
index 4859ede38a..30681681c1 100644
--- a/builtin/mailsplit.c
+++ b/builtin/mailsplit.c
@@ -45,6 +45,19 @@ static int is_from_line(const char *line, int len)
 
 static struct strbuf buf = STRBUF_INIT;
 static int keep_cr;
+static int mboxrd;
+
+static int is_gtfrom(const struct strbuf *buf)
+{
+	size_t min = strlen(">From ");
+	size_t ngt;
+
+	if (buf->len < min)
+		return 0;
+
+	ngt = strspn(buf->buf, ">");
+	return ngt && starts_with(buf->buf + ngt, "From ");
+}
 
 /* Called with the first line (potentially partial)
  * already in buf[] -- normally that should begin with
@@ -77,6 +90,9 @@ static int split_one(FILE *mbox, const char *name, int allow_bare)
 			strbuf_addch(&buf, '\n');
 		}
 
+		if (mboxrd && is_gtfrom(&buf))
+			strbuf_remove(&buf, 0, 1);
+
 		if (fwrite(buf.buf, 1, buf.len, output) != buf.len)
 			die_errno("cannot write output");
 
@@ -271,6 +287,8 @@ int cmd_mailsplit(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
 			keep_cr = 1;
 		} else if ( arg[1] == 'o' && arg[2] ) {
 			dir = arg+2;
+		} else if (!strcmp(arg, "--mboxrd")) {
+			mboxrd = 1;
 		} else if ( arg[1] == '-' && !arg[2] ) {
 			argp++;	/* -- marks end of options */
 			break;